[300bps]

Good luck. There are some people in organizations whose entire job is to schedule and attend meetings.

No matter how you say it to those kinds of people, expressing that meetings are keeping you from getting engineer-related work done will be viewed extremely negatively.

I’ve been in IT decades and still don’t know what the best answer is.

[tomhallett]

Our CEO requires every meeting to have an agenda sent out the day before which goes over the background for the meeting, any metrics/dashboards everyone should be familiar with, and what should be discussed in the meeting.

If the person who schedules the meeting does this, it opens up a conversation where you can say "I read what you sent out - everything looks good and I don't think I'm needed for this meeting".

[ilaksh]

Fire those people.

[Hypergraphe]

Those are generally at the top of the structure.

[ilaksh]

True. Not saying it's usually practical. But still would be best to fire them.