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I'd love to see the data, but I suspect that number of meetings and hours lost that way increased when we switched to remote. Not that we had need to coordinate

I'd love to see the data, but I suspect that number of meetings and hours lost that way increased when we switched to remote. Not that we had need to coordinate more, but the fact that the company was no longer constrained by the number of meeting rooms available. Now you could schedule any number of meetings at any time. Before Covid, you had to look in the schedule to find an available room. If there was none, you had to postpone the meeting or try to do it informally. If I was developing Teams or a similar software, I'd allow companies to institute virtual meeting rooms that would function like the real deal. You can do impromptu 1:1 calls, but anything more than that requires a virtual room with a schedule. Another thing that could be useful is productivity metrics of hours spent in meetings (it's possible it exists).

justinlloyd 6y ago
"Another thing that could be useful is productivity metrics of hours spent in meetings" In my work I am required to log my day-to-day activity (for external client billing), including all of my time in meetings. This time breakdown goes into my monthly report. I do not call any meetings. It is always the PM or another manager setting up meetings and wanting me to be in it. The PM, and the CTO, and other higher ups get very upset, at me, when they see that I log between 40 and 90 hours per month in meetings. I am to blame for this apparently. And they also wonder why development is slow. But this is also a case of more managers than there are developers. It is also why I am looking to move on at the earliest opportunity.
- saberdancer 6y ago
  Exactly. I feel that if we brought up metrics from before Covid and after that there would be a sharp increase in amount of meeting hours, in part due to unrestricted number of potential meetings. Having hard data could allow companies to make some changes and improvements.
- daxelrod 6y ago
  Sounds like the higher ups are asking you to decline more meetings, which I’m sure they will also be upset about.

justinlloyd 6y ago

"Another thing that could be useful is productivity metrics of hours spent in meetings" In my work I am required to log my day-to-day activity (for external client billing), including all of my time in meetings. This time breakdown goes into my monthly report. I do not call any meetings. It is always the PM or another manager setting up meetings and wanting me to be in it. The PM, and the CTO, and other higher ups get very upset, at me, when they see that I log between 40 and 90 hours per month in meetings. I am to blame for this apparently. And they also wonder why development is slow. But this is also a case of more managers than there are developers. It is also why I am looking to move on at the earliest opportunity.

saberdancer 6y ago
Exactly. I feel that if we brought up metrics from before Covid and after that there would be a sharp increase in amount of meeting hours, in part due to unrestricted number of potential meetings. Having hard data could allow companies to make some changes and improvements.
daxelrod 6y ago
Sounds like the higher ups are asking you to decline more meetings, which I’m sure they will also be upset about.