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[–] [email protected] 88 points 6 days ago (15 children)

Ngl, it's actually pretty handy.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 6 days ago (12 children)

Really don't know why you're getting downvoted. Getting a transcript and summary of an hour long meeting that you weren't at is so much easier than relying on someone taking and sending you notes.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 days ago (8 children)

If you get sufficient value out of a 30 second summary of an hour long meeting, then why have the hour long meeting?

(h)(n) + (t)(p) = W
(h length of meeting in hours) x (n number of people in the meeting) + (t number of hours prepping the meeting) x (p number of people prepping the meeting) = W number of work hours spent on this meeting. Multiply W by the average hourly wage. That's how much money the meeting cost. And that doesn't factor in the cost of productivity loss because everybody could've been doing something useful with that time instead.

If it could've otherwise been ten minutes of writing an email and five minutes per worker reading and understanding it, then how is it anything other than an efficiency gain to just make that meeting an email? Instead, we're still putting the meeting together just to then pay in resources and possibly subscription cost to have the meeting summarized instead of just having the host do it in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

This is all very true, and I agree completely. But you've overlooked two very important factors that I can think of:

  1. Many people attending these meetings do not have the authority to cancel them, and the people who do have the authority may not be receptive to this argument.
  2. Some people will benefit from assisted notetaking even if the meeting was worthy of the time.

I'm neurodivergent and when I'm writing notes my brain shuts off audio processing. I literally can't take notes without missing more of the meeting than I'm writing down. And unfortunately most people above me in the hierarchy can't fathom writing a message instead of speaking for an hour.

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