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demifiend · 3530 days ago · link · · parent · post: America meets a lot. An analysis of meeting length, frequency and cost.
I'm a software developer by trade, so I find meetings especially burdensome. Most of the meetings I'm obligated to attend are either status meetings, which consist of a minute's contribution on my part in which I explain that I am on target for all my deadlines, or meetings in which I am called upon to explain components I implemented to other teams on the project because they couldn't be bothered to either read the code itself, which is reasonably well commented, or the documentation I provide with the component. The status meetings could be replaced with email. I'm not sure what to do about the other kind, but at least I'm not just sitting there listening to other people run their mouths when I could be working.