An all-hands is a meeting that brings the entire company together — often used interchangeably with "town hall" — to share major news, align on priorities, and build shared context across teams. In distributed and remote-first organizations, the all-hands has become an especially important ritual for cohesion and transparency, and its cadence, format, and candor say a lot about a company's communication culture. It's a primary moment for leadership visibility and two-way dialogue at scale.