There are a lot of better and more specific answers about canceling and how useful meetings are. I can give you an insight into one way to measure that. (Like

There are a lot of better and more specific answers about canceling and how useful meetings are. I can give you an insight into one way to measure that. (Like every time you measure things with a normative proxy, this gets far more controversial than you’d like or expect very fast.) Measure the speaking time for everyone. How is that controversial? Well, you can ask what the goal of the meeting is, but if the point is “discussion” and the boss talked 94% of the time, we are in “this meeting could have been an email” territory. Because the boss is very much a listener, as he likes to remind people, that isn’t a great look. Or rather, whoever suggested to measure who is speaking isn’t a great fit for the team.