Cutting a team from twelve meetings a week

Cancel them all for two weeks and let people re-request what they miss. Roughly a third never come back, a third return shorter, and the remainder turn out to be the ones doing real work. Trimming them one at a time never produces that clarity.

An afternoon to do it properly the first time, then minutes when it recurs. Most of the first afternoon goes into discovering which of the defaults do not match your situation.