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Only if handled properly, which a lot of supposed "stand-ups" aren't.
I don't see how you can have a meeting with members of 3 different tiers of support where progress on multiple projects is summarized in a way that someone not on the projects can get anything meaningful out of it, in addition to tier 1 gets to talk about how swamped they are, and tier 2 gets to talk about the flow from tier 1 into some delicious sandwich, and have that only take 5 minutes. I'm guessing that's a minimum of 15 people in the meeting, if you have multiple tiers and everyone's present. To get things done in 5 minutes means that on average everyone only gets to talk for 24 seconds. If you have people who aren't talking, that suggests they don't need to be in the meeting.
In addition, the whole concept of "standing up" for a meeting is stupid. Sure, it means meetings don't last as long, but that's because it's uncomfortable. Plus there are social dynamics issues you introduce between tall people (often men) and short people (often women).