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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] We bring laptops and phones to meetings. Everyone is texting and doing other work. [/quote]

That makes me think that either a) your organization has too many meetings and/or b) many meeting attendees are unnecessary.  It would seem that it would be better to fix that problem than to have people trying to do two different things (badly) at the same time in meetings.[/quote]

Sure. But if I just work there and don’t make these kinds of decisions then here we are. Yes, where I work has serious meeting culture problem. If you didn’t do work during your meetings you wouldn’t get anything done. [/quote]

Same. Also, it would be miserable to work with people who (can) only do one thing at a time. Many of us do many, well and efficiently. If we are all in a meeting, there are electric real-time tracking of to-do lists. Looking up docs AND answering questions in real time. Scheduling another or breakout meeting while we are all talking to include the right people and agenda. This are simple examples. I can also fix and test code and run some data examples during meetings to get decisions on the spot. I would be miserable in a place where everything was sequential.

But that's a huge sidetrack to say WTF- the guy can look at his phone in the meeting and the manager is completely in the wrong and will be looking for a new worker soon if he's trying that on.[/quote]

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