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I find that leading a remote team means most adhoc syncing done between members go away so standups are required. Also, the higher up you go, the more of these meetings you need to be in if you want to stay aligned with everyone.

For me, I spend around 6+ hours on team sync up and 5 hours on 1:1s with DRs. But that's because I am very involved in most parts of the org.

You can replace meetings with documentation but you need to be disciplined to read all those and digest them. Or just think about the sync meetings as a time to build rapport with them.

You're not an IC anyway, you're measured by your team's work so alignment is necessary if you want them working on the right thing all the time.