Ever said to yourself, “I wonder what this meeting is costing us…”?
TechCrunch - MEETorDIE Quantifies The Cost Of Wasteful Meetings
“Company meetings are a nearly universally hated thing. No matter what line of work you’re in, most are simply a waste of time. And even when they’re important and necessary, they’re still likely inefficient. A new startup aims to show you just how wasteful they are.
MEETorDIE is an online tool that asks you to put in information about your meeting, including what company you work for, what industry you’re in, how big the company is, how long the meeting is, and who is attending. When you submit that information, you’re taken to a page that shows how much money your company wasted with that meeting. Below that, you can see the aggregate statistics for how much money your company has wasted on meetings total.
Depending on how wasteful your meeting is, MEETorDIE’s mascot, Goolah, will be shown in different precarious situations incorporating imagery from other popular startups, such as Foursquare and Twitter. More importantly, MEETorDIE suggests how the money being wasted during these meetings might be better spent, such as donating money for drinking water for Africa.
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I love the subtitle… :p
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I had a friend write an Outlook add-in that automatically calculated how much a given meeting was going to cost, based on the number of attendees and average company salary, and inserted a message to that effect at the bottom of every outgoing meeting request or response. Very handy.
Nice! LOL
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