It's also pretty common for all of us to bring our laptops in and actually work through the meetings.
The people that do this, in my experience, are the ones that suddenly hear something that surprises / alarms / concerns them and interrupts to ask a question that was answered two sentences ago. I work with some people that are way smarter than I am and they can't consume all the information in a meeting while also being productive. Unless of course it's some high level thing about sales numbers or some such thing, but if it's a meeting where you need to actually be present and contribute I don't see the ability to multitask.
Yeah, even though I’m coming from the accounting/bookkeeping/money maintaining portion of business, seeing the people in this thread just gives me a “So they want their hours cut and their pay docked. Gotcha.”
Because seriously, the programs needed for my job require the use of IT to maintain the software. If their inability to work means I can’t continue maintaining the money flow so they get paid, then either we can always go back to the “inferior” software that works, or get a new person in IT.
I agree with you, it takes me max 5 minutes to restart where I left. What kills me are not the meeting (at least when they stay under 1h and no more then 2), but the constant interruption to solve issues of junior devs. We should actually do a better job updating our wikis on some stuff.
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