Start your meetings at 5 minutes past – Vallified
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I work as an Engineering Manager at Google, and my teams practice a simple habit - we book all meetings to start at five minutes past the hour (or half hour). This works better than trying to finish five minutes early. Meetings often don't finish on time, and the impact is highest with back-to-back meetings.…
  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    5·
    20 hours ago

    Or, hear me out, show some maturity and end the meeting at it’s end time.

    Whoever is leading a meeting should be deferring things that can’t be resolved in the current time, and be wrapping up before the end time.

    With 10 minutes left they should be reviewing “next steps”, including the things that couldn’t be covered, with communication of who will lead setting up meetings for those items.

    I’m even more convinced now that Google is full on amateur hour with juvenile ideas like this.

    • WoodScientist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      18 hours ago

      Or, hear me out, show some maturity and end the meeting at it’s end time.

      Individual action vs group action. You don’t have control over other people. You can’t force others in your organization to end their meetings on the hour. You can however set your meetings to begin five minutes after the hour.