> If there’s the chance that someone can multitask at a meeting easily and very effectively, maybe they don’t need to be at the meeting? Speaking from personal

> If there’s the chance that someone can multitask at a meeting easily and very effectively, maybe they don’t need to be at the meeting? Speaking from personal experience, you often don’t have control over this. If I don’t attend meetings I get invited to, it’s seen as a lack of interest and being disrespectful. So I attend them to show my face, and then just do my regular work. And if I don’t, then people stop inviting me all together and assume I’m not on the project anymore. That leaves me with little choice. The whole thing about “leave meetings where you’re not needed”, only really works when you’re in a position of power.