Meeting Tax
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
The productivity cost of recurring meetings that consume focus time and reduce time available for actual work.
In plain English: The lost productivity caused by too many meetings.
Example: "By Wednesday the meeting tax had already wiped out most engineering focus time."
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