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If you assume everyone is making 100k it only takes 20 people in a meeting for it to cost 1k.

Wasn't it Shopify who had a system for tracking how much each meeting cost based on attendees? I may be misremembering the company though

I was thinking about this in recent weeks and I think I’ve actually changed my mind on it.

It’s not really possible to measure how much it would cost to not have a meeting, and I think it’s pretty obvious that if there were no meetings ever, it would hurt a company a lot

Yeah, I agree it's a silly metric. But it's kinda also a good reminder that meetings do have a cost associated with them, so they should stay short, focused, and held only when necessary.

"This could have been an e-mail" should never need to be said.

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