As a consultant paid hourly rates now, meeting invites had a significant drop when I moved from daily to hourly. I noted that customers were paying me to hang

As a consultant paid hourly rates now, meeting invites had a significant drop when I moved from daily to hourly. I noted that customers were paying me to hang around for 8 hours being on demand for messages or meetings to pop up like a reserved instance. I guess that long repetitive meeting culture will exist until the systems change to a flipped office.