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Ask HN: Cost of not being on time?
I am always getting annoyed when people think it's acceptable to come 15min late to a meeting. Just considering a 4 engineers meeting that is a loss of 1 working hour.
Over a year that can add up to hundreds of hours which is a significant cost for any company.
Apparently there are even worse cases where people come late and introduce cost (e.g. missing an appointment with an investor). I am curious if anyone has some stories to share about the cost of not being on time.
- partycoder 8y agoOften, some minutes are used setting up a conference call, a projector or a presentation. I find this very wasteful.
- tanto 8y agoTrue, that's why someone should do that before the meeting but again most people assume that others will be late anyway. Than you get 3 high paid engineers setting up a beamer.
- Piskvorrr 8y agoThis is perhaps relevant: https://www.communicaid.com/cross-cultural-training/blog/how-time-can-cause-conflict-when-working-internationally/ https://www.communicaid.com/cross-cultural-training/blog/how... (But yeah, if the accepted norm is "meeting starts at the time in calendar," coming late is rude. OTOH, it could be a message, too: "I think this meeting is a waste of time and this is my way of expressing it.")