• all-hands - n., a meeting where everyone in the department is expected to attend.

Have you ever looked up in the sky at a huge flock of birds, and marveled at how the entire flock changes direction in perfect unison? Well, I don’t know anything about how the Bird King gets his flock to turn, but I do know how it’s done in the corporate world.

In the corporate world, all of those birds would receive emails requesting that they attend a mandatory meeting, during which they would sit patiently through three days of slides and lectures containing management’s future expectations on how, when, and where turns were expected in the future. This mandatory meeting is called an All-Hands.