By the way, I created this by exporting my Outlook calendar to CSV and then making the chart in excel.
Send it to your CEO. I’d be horrified if that were my company.
This was exhausting for me to see.
4+ meetings per day on average? Shoot me.
I would jump off a bridge if this were me. I have two standing 1-hour meetings a week and even those are torture.
So it looks like your a data analyst. I like meetings. How do I get into becoming a data analyst?!
Uhhh do ya do anything else besides go to meetings?
Thanks for sharing this, just did the same on mine. At 1765 meetings this year.
There’s meetings, and then there’s *meetings.*
Your meetings average 38 minutes, so I’m guessing most are short and unscheduled with small numbers of people. The company I retired from, a “meeting” was 60 minutes minimum, three hour meetings were not uncommon, and all day meetings were scheduled several times a year.
651 hours represents 31% of the common 40-hour workweek (2080 hours / year).
Oof. How much did all of these meetings move the bottom line?
In a world where businesses are waking back up, and getting back to basics due to environmental pressures, they are relearning the only metrics worth tracking are the ones the accountants handle.
4 meetings a day, no matter how fruitful, is the definition of waste. That’s a LOT of labor cost with no sellable product at the end.
I think it was Warren Buffet who said, when he’s looking at a new business plan, he flips straight to the back to look at the financials, and if they are good enough he flips to the front cover to see what the business does. Can’t argue with his results.
I find it very funny that absolutely nobody tried to ask about your day to day or job duties before immediately claiming this many meetings were a waste of time.
Idk what you do or if theres that much value in meeting this much for your job or not or if it IS a waste of time, I just find it interesting people are just throwing that out there with no context of your job lol
Nearly 1/3rd of your time in meetings is wild.
Looking at your role, that doesn’t surprise me! There’s just so much data going around nowadays, and you need to know exactly what they want to see and what metrics your stakeholders are interested in.
In some of my team lead roles I was in meetings all day. I was either touching base with the developers, helping them out or figuring out what had to be done. Some might say that was a waste of time, but I disagree: those meetings allowed me to have very efficient meetings with the people who were actually building the product.
I specifically set 30 minute meetings, no extra time so people are forced to get the point.
The agenda of a meeting should be concise and well explained to everyone and everyone should be prepared for the meeting to not waste everyone’s time.
If you need more items to discuss setup another meeting or just send an email guys.
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By the way, I created this by exporting my Outlook calendar to CSV and then making the chart in excel.
Send it to your CEO. I’d be horrified if that were my company.
This was exhausting for me to see.
4+ meetings per day on average? Shoot me.
I would jump off a bridge if this were me. I have two standing 1-hour meetings a week and even those are torture.
So it looks like your a data analyst. I like meetings. How do I get into becoming a data analyst?!
Uhhh do ya do anything else besides go to meetings?
Thanks for sharing this, just did the same on mine. At 1765 meetings this year.
There’s meetings, and then there’s *meetings.*
Your meetings average 38 minutes, so I’m guessing most are short and unscheduled with small numbers of people. The company I retired from, a “meeting” was 60 minutes minimum, three hour meetings were not uncommon, and all day meetings were scheduled several times a year.
651 hours represents 31% of the common 40-hour workweek (2080 hours / year).
Oof. How much did all of these meetings move the bottom line?
In a world where businesses are waking back up, and getting back to basics due to environmental pressures, they are relearning the only metrics worth tracking are the ones the accountants handle.
4 meetings a day, no matter how fruitful, is the definition of waste. That’s a LOT of labor cost with no sellable product at the end.
I think it was Warren Buffet who said, when he’s looking at a new business plan, he flips straight to the back to look at the financials, and if they are good enough he flips to the front cover to see what the business does. Can’t argue with his results.
I find it very funny that absolutely nobody tried to ask about your day to day or job duties before immediately claiming this many meetings were a waste of time.
Idk what you do or if theres that much value in meeting this much for your job or not or if it IS a waste of time, I just find it interesting people are just throwing that out there with no context of your job lol
Nearly 1/3rd of your time in meetings is wild.
Looking at your role, that doesn’t surprise me! There’s just so much data going around nowadays, and you need to know exactly what they want to see and what metrics your stakeholders are interested in.
In some of my team lead roles I was in meetings all day. I was either touching base with the developers, helping them out or figuring out what had to be done. Some might say that was a waste of time, but I disagree: those meetings allowed me to have very efficient meetings with the people who were actually building the product.
I specifically set 30 minute meetings, no extra time so people are forced to get the point.
The agenda of a meeting should be concise and well explained to everyone and everyone should be prepared for the meeting to not waste everyone’s time.
If you need more items to discuss setup another meeting or just send an email guys.
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