How much time do you spend in meetings on a weekly basis?

[swagsurfer02]

Some people have a shit ton of unread emails in their inbox. I don’t get it, but you do you boo boo.

My emails stack up when I’m either traveling or in meetings (usually face to face). How much time would you wager you spend in meetings every week.

 

[Bank of Hawk]

69

 

[fredjr82]

I took a leadership role about 18 months ago. It was f'ing miserable as most days were from 7:30 - 4:30.

The worst part they were all 30 or 60 mins meetings. I finally put a "Daily Refresh" hour from noon - 1PM as a reoccurring meeting so people would stop scheduling over my lunch hour.

We had some executives leave the organization. New execs have really done a good job of curtailing those all day meetings, thankfully. It was a nightmare

 

[fezzador]

Probably 3ish hours on average. 1-2 hours of internal meetings, and an hour or two with a random client.

 

[Fan In Black]

I could work 60 hours a week doing meetings, email, and DMs. I used to to be an engineer. Now..I am more like a help desk where I started. It's 100 on company outsourcing work and eliminating experience. I spend 50 percent of my day helping the people hired to fill in for the people they eliminated.

The company saves a shit ton of money. But they ignore the effect it has. They still expect us to focus on development and process improvement even tho the work load has shifted to support of our support.

 

[QChawks]

4-5 hours a day 🫤

 

[bhawk24bob]

I used to fight it but if you're going to pay me to meet, whatever

I've always thought that Outlook should have a button that takes the midrange salary for the people invited to the meeting and asks you Is this meeting worth $3,000? or whatever a half hour with the invited parties would be before you click to send the invite.

 

[The Tradition]

Holy crap. We have meetings to discuss what we heard at the previous meeting.

Trying to actually DO all the stuff we talk about doing at the meetings is the hard part. Because we're never done with the meetings!

 

[Derekd3408]

Meetings with potential clients= 30-40 hrs a wk.
Meeting within the company= an hr every other Thursday morning.

 

[wilson reborn]

Tree fiddy. I get paid by the partnership. I don’t deserve what they give me.

 

[millah_22]

Might meet with a new client once per week, might have an annual training. Average an hour or less per week.

 

[TheCainer]

I worked for a company 15 years ago where we would have meetings just in order to determine how many more meetings we would have in a week.

What a zoo. We never got anything accomplished.

 

[binsfeldcyhawk2]

Some people have a shit ton of unread emails in their inbox. I don’t get it, but you do you boo boo.

My emails stack up when I’m either traveling or in meetings (usually face to face). How much time would you wager you spend in meetings every week.

Towards the end of my military career I had around 3 hrs of meetings a day. Had a squadron maintenance meeting to get ready for the group meeting to get ready for the wing meeting.

 

[OrlandNole]

I have been struggling with this a lot lately. It's not uncommon to have 6-8 meetings per day. It's suffocating. I finally declared a hiatus from all non-essential meetings so that I can get some work done.

 

[BubsFinn]

Pretty much none.

 

[Hawki97]

Is there anything to do other than meetings (and email)?

 

[seminoleed]

The joys of retirement--I don't do meetings any more.

 

[Whiskeydeltadeltatango]

Depending on the week, I would say I have 2 full days of meetings each week ( call that 15 hours) minimum.

 

[Obviously Oblivious]

5-10 hours a week on average, usually just enough that I fall behind in my actual work.

 

[TennNole17]

10-15 hours, mix of client facing and internal. I'd say of that, half I 'participate' in or lead, half I'm listening (doing other things)

 

[Car-go]

Meetings all day long. Corporate America!

 

[Rifler]

Probably average an hour a day...