This meeting could have been an email.
You already know it was pointless.
Let’s see how bad it really was.
Here’s what that meeting really cost you:
Meetings are more expensive than they look
A meeting cost calculator turns time into money. By combining the number of people, meeting length, and hourly rates, it shows the real meeting cost hiding behind “just a quick call”.
Most teams underestimate how much pointless meetings actually cost. Beyond salaries, they reduce focus, hurt meeting productivity, and slow down real work.
That’s why the phrase “this meeting could have been an email” resonates so strongly — it captures a frustration shared across modern workplaces.
Teams usually check meeting costs for weekly syncs, planning sessions, retrospectives, and alignment calls — especially when too many people are involved and no clear outcome is defined.
Most meetings don’t fail because they’re long — they fail because they never needed to exist.