This meeting should’ve been an email

Tools to murder meetingsTools
Estimated damage

people, of them needed, minutes,
at average salary, repeating

The room

Torched per year
$0

Salary paid to people who did not need to be there. They could have been on mute. Ideally absent.

Full damage per year
$0

if this repeats weekly

Hours you’d claw back
0

per year, if someone got brave with the invite list

The receipt

Exactly what lands on your clipboard. Share hands it to your own apps — nothing is uploaded, no server, no one cc’d.


      
Salary alone understates cost. Real burden runs 1.25x to 1.40x with benefits, payroll tax, and overhead.
2,080 is 40 hours across 52 weeks. Drop to 1,880 to net out PTO and holidays.
Minutes each attendee loses to context switching on either side. Set 10 to 15 for a realistic read.

Tools to murder meetings

Everything below does the same job: moves a conversation off the calendar and into somewhere people can read it at their own speed.

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