October 31, 2024
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There is an interesting post over at Working Smarter regarding meetings and whether they’re of any business benefit or not.

I already know my answer!

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…a recent survey found that an average employee spends 5.6 hours in meetings each week.  Throw in prep time and wrapup time and that number probably extends to almost 8 hours a week.  And frankly, in my experience, that number is low.  But for the sake of argument let’s use 8 hours as a baseline.  Let’s postulate that an average worker costs a business in salary and overhead approximately $100,000 per year fully loaded.  This means the average person spends approximately 400 hours (50 weeks * 8 hours per week) in meetings.  That cost is approximately $22,500 for the fully loaded worker.  Note that in an average work year (say 2000 hours) almost one fifth is in meetings.  In a medium sized firm of 100 people, over 400,000 hours of time is spent in meetings based on this math.

400,000 hours – that’s ridiculous!

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You can read the full article “Costly Meetings” here.

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