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How much of your year is meetings?
List the meetings you go to in a normal week. You get them as a share of your week, working days a year, and money.
The cheapest cut is the one you can see
A recurring meeting nobody would miss is easy to drop once you can see what it adds up to. Meetful writes every meeting down — who said what, the decisions and who took what — so a meeting that only shares news can become a written update people read when they like.
How it is worked out
Each meeting’s length times how often it happens, added up for a week. The share is that against the hours you work a week. A working day is your weekly hours divided by five. A year is the weeks you work — 46 to begin with, which leaves six weeks for holidays and public holidays; change it to yours. Money is your pay divided by the hours you work in a year, times the hours in meetings — your own time only, not everybody else’s in the room.
Questions
How do I count a meeting every two weeks or once a month?
Choose how often it happens next to it: every two weeks counts as half a meeting a week, once a month as about a quarter (twelve months over fifty-two weeks).
Why weeks worked, not fifty-two?
Nobody has meetings on holiday. Forty-six weeks leaves six for holidays and public holidays; set your own number.
Does the money include the other people in the meeting?
No — this is your own time. To cost a whole meeting with everybody in it, use the meeting cost calculator.