Should You Go To That Meeting?

IMHO work meetings involving more than two or three people are generally a waste of time and conference rooms should really be renamed “Nothing-Productive-Happening-Here” rooms. Most of the people present in any given meeting really don’t care about most of what is discussed most of the time. Meetings are a huge time suck.

Luckily for me, one of the great benefits of freelancing is that I can generally avoid meetings. And if one of my clients really, really, wants me at a meeting, they are pretty darn sure that my presence is relevant. After all, they are paying for my time.

Someone at the Huffington Post figured out that 99% of work meetings are (and I quote) “garbage.” They even provided a handy flow chart to help you decide whether you should go to that meeting or not. (Don’t go!) Now if they could only figure out how to avoid conference calls, all would be good.