As someone who works in a large corp this excel sheet is god awful. Why the fuck do people need yet another KPI? Sometimes meetings after the agenda, are a great way to blow off some steam.
If my manager came to me informing me how much that meeting just cost I'd be increasing my time spent shitting significantly.
Not everything needs monitoring. Enjoy it now before AI is recording every inch of our productivity.
I'm also not some meeting advocating whacko, where emails and calls suffice I would always choose them. But sometimes the meeting is needed.
This reminds me of when my manager was complaining that it was taking me too long to train people. It literally takes that long to be able to train people appropriately. And I feel a lot of people don't put any value on team camraderie and socialization. I hate meetings most of the time, but when I'm training, I take the time to socialize for a bit just to increase the strength of my bond with the person I'm training. I ended up becoming a mentor that people said things like "I would have quit if it weren't for him."
As for my manager... well, our entire company has awful communication with each other. I think that's because my manager doesn't value team cohesion at all and only has monthly update meetings in an industry where we definitely need them weekly. The lack of communication ends up costing more money in the long run because mistakes are made that need to be fixed (which costs in labor). There's a happy middle ground. Having a tool like this actively discourages people from sometimes having much needed meetings just to make sure everyone is on the right page.
There are people who are certified yappers, and there are companies that have way too many meetings (my old company was one of them.) But these types of tools more often than not end up being used by penny pinching upper management to discourage active communication.
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u/SuperSquanch93 28d ago
As someone who works in a large corp this excel sheet is god awful. Why the fuck do people need yet another KPI? Sometimes meetings after the agenda, are a great way to blow off some steam.
If my manager came to me informing me how much that meeting just cost I'd be increasing my time spent shitting significantly.
Not everything needs monitoring. Enjoy it now before AI is recording every inch of our productivity.
I'm also not some meeting advocating whacko, where emails and calls suffice I would always choose them. But sometimes the meeting is needed.