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Yes-ish. I’ve found it ebbs and flows. Some years are definitely like that. Then, at some time, things even out and you get some nice years too.
Affirmative. My husband and I haven’t watched tv together in 5 years but we sit on the couch every weeknight from 9-11pm, laptops in laps, working! It’s almost comical.
Only a senior and feeling this SO hard right now
I’m currently in hour 4 of 6 hours of meetings today, not including impromptu calls or discussions
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Yes that’s pretty much the pattern.
The partners at my firm work all night and all weekend... every extra hour that they work turns into 000s of $$$s in the pocket. Hard to turn off when you think about it that way.
Can be; do an honest stock take of the meetings you’re involved in. With hindsight, were there opportunities to consolidate engagements, what regular meetings don’t add value to you (taking into consideration opportunities to stay abreast of current information and visibility), with hindsight what meetings do you now wish you’d said no to.
Now the hard part. Acknowledging your colleagues likely feel a similar strain; What regular meetings could you start to seek agreement on disbanding? How can you make it easier to migrate people to alternate updates? What rule could you test next week to filter out meetings that don’t need you. Don’t go for a hard switch but try to find two hours you could win back in your calendar next week.
Do this each week for a month, retesting the rules you build up and the implications. Can you build up to saving 8 hours a week?
I’m pretty tight on meeting time. With my own team any meeting without an agenda I write how much a meeting is about to cost us (using average wage rates x the number of hours per role) on the whiteboard before we start; I include this as standard on any meeting agenda I send out too - over time I’m invited to better organised meetings with fewer spectator attendees.
Director level here. This is me minus the night work. Almost never work at night. If I can’t get it done between 7am and 6pm it’s usually not getting done that day
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SE1, these are just broad hours I’m open for calls. But I’m based in MT so early east coast calls are fairly common. I usually wrap up by 4 most days though