At my ex employer, every employee had an hourly rate in the system, I had thought of pulling the rates from the internal system into Microsoft teams, to display the cost of every meeting.

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vjvjvjvjghv 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

I (unsuccesfully) tried to make that point before: "You just spent $2000 of paid employee time for a meeting that achieved nothing but we don't have the money to spend $1000 on licenses for X". Didn't work

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maxclark 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Shopify did this - it’s frightening when you see the numbers across your entire org

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		That feels like it might have perverse incentives if it were formally tracked. On the other hand, as a low level grunt, I would enjoy having some quantitative metrics about the topic. Who acts like this is a game trying to get the high score? Depending on how it was implemented, might also be possible to unblind people’s salary. A big no-no for a big corporation where there might be laughable pay disparity.

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theshrike79 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

We thought about this in 2002 already :)

"Meeting cost calculator" where the cost of the meeting would tick up in real time on the wall.

IIRC the idea was to have everyone tap their keyfob on a reader and it'd get everyone's hourly salary from a database and start counting the price by the minute.

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lawlorino 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I like this. To add: It serves as a strict lower bound, since it doesn’t account for the hidden cost of context switching etc.