Shopify works to cut pointless meetings with cost calculator
Time is money, and Shopify wants its workers to understand that maxim applies to pointless meetings, too.
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Time is money, and Shopify wants its workers to understand that maxim applies to pointless meetings, too.
Meetings that waste time also waste about $US100 million every year at big organisations.
The Canadian e-commerce company has rolled out a calculator embedded in employees’ calendar app that estimates the cost of any meeting with three or more people.
The Canadian e-commerce company has rolled out a calculator embedded in employees' calendar app that estimates the cost of any meeting with three or more people.
“Most of the modern work environment is broken,” says COO Kaz Nejatian. “It’s not just any one change that matters.”