🗨️ Why Engineers Join Unnecessary Meetings

Avoid unnecessary meetings draining productivity. Learn how engineers can boost efficiency with async work, smart meeting choices, and better processes.

Meetings often feel like a default solution to any problem. But they’re expensive.

When you pull 8 engineers into a room for an hour, you’re costing a full employee’s workday to the company. The cost compounds when those meetings lack structure or purpose.

I’ve been in meetings where people didn’t prepare in advance. The agenda wasn’t clear, and half the attendees didn’t need to be there. These situations led me to a realization: preparation and focus can salvage hours of wasted time.

⭐ In this post you’ll learn

• How to identify meetings

• How to make meetings efficient and valuable.

• What’s the alternative to joining the meeting

🚫 Why Engineers Join Unnecessary Meetings

The reasons are simple yet harmful:

1. Fear of Missing Out: Engineers worry they might miss critical context or decisions, so they attend every meeting.

2. Poor Intake Processes: Without clear workflows, ad hoc requests lead to reactive meeting invites.

3. …