Ask HN: How much of your time is spent in meetings?

Re:Ask HN: How much of your time is spent in meetings? by frostmatthew on Friday September 02, 2016 @02:47PM (#12415268)

> To the point of a meeting every other hour

That seems excessive - are you sure that's typical across your company and not just unique to your team?

Anyway, to answer your question, at VMware I spend about about two hours a week in meetings. [N.B. I'm a fairly junior engineer, more senior ones typically spend more time in meetings]

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Re:Ask HN: How much of your time is spent in meetings? by topshelf on Friday September 02, 2016 @02:54PM (#12415324)

Thanks, excessive was my first thought too.

I let that happen exactly once before bringing it up to my supervisor. According to him, seems like it's at least across our dept (IT/software dev).

The history sounds like it didn't use to be an issue until they moved into a giant 'open office' with very few walls/rooms. What normally would've been a quick conversation in someone's office turns into booking a meeting room, and the mentality turns into, "Might as well invite XYZ too because now it's a meeting."

EDIT: typos and clarity

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