Practical guides on meeting culture, productivity, and cost.
Every workplace argument about meetings eventually boils down to one question: should we talk about this right now, or can it wait? That distinction — synchronous versus asynchronous communication —…
Read more →Bain, McKinsey, and their peers charge between $140,000 and $550,000 for organizational effectiveness engagements — the consulting euphemism for “we’ll look at how you spend your time and tell you…
Read more →You open your laptop on Monday morning. Before you’ve finished your coffee, the calendar is already a wall of colored blocks—standup, sprint review, alignment sync, 1:1, cross-functional check-in, and a…
Read more →In 2017, Bain & Company partners Michael Mankins and Eric Garton published Time, Talent, Energy — a book that gave a name to something every knowledge worker already felt. They…
Read more →Every week, millions of calendar invites go out for meetings that never needed to happen. Harvard Business Review reports that 71% of senior managers consider meetings unproductive and inefficient. The…
Read more →A no meeting day policy is one of the simplest changes a company can make — and one of the most effective. Research from MIT Sloan found that companies introducing…
Read more →Meetings consume more working hours than any other single activity in professional life. Yet most leaders operate on gut feeling when it comes to how many meetings their teams attend,…
Read more →Meeting cost per minute is the single metric that changes scheduling behavior faster than any policy memo or management directive. When you see $8.50 per minute ticking next to a…
Read more →How much do meetings cost? For US businesses alone, the answer is $37 billion per year in wasted meeting time, according to data from Harvard Business Review and Atlassian. If…
Read more →On January 3, 2023, thousands of Shopify employees returned from the holidays, opened their calendars, and found them empty. Not partially cleared. Empty. Over the break, Shopify’s IT team had…
Read more →The true cost of meetings is far larger than the salary figure most managers calculate. When you add up hourly wages, multiply by attendees, and call it a day, you’ve…
Read more →Zombie meetings are recurring calendar events that keep going long after their original purpose has expired. They were created for a project that shipped, a team that reorganized, or a…
Read more →The best Clockwise alternatives in 2026 are MeetBurn, Reclaim.ai, and Motion, each approaches the calendar problem differently, and which one you need depends on whether you want to rearrange your…
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