"Another thing that could be useful is productivity metrics of hours spent in meetings"
In my work I am required to log my day-to-day activity (for external client billing), including all of my time in meetings. This time breakdown goes into my monthly report. I do not call any meetings. It is always the PM or another manager setting up meetings and wanting me to be in it. The PM, and the CTO, and other higher ups get very upset, at me, when they see that I log between 40 and 90 hours per month in meetings. I am to blame for this apparently. And they also wonder why development is slow. But this is also a case of more managers than there are developers. It is also why I am looking to move on at the earliest opportunity.
Exactly. I feel that if we brought up metrics from before Covid and after that there would be a sharp increase in amount of meeting hours, in part due to unrestricted number of potential meetings. Having hard data could allow companies to make some changes and improvements.
In my work I am required to log my day-to-day activity (for external client billing), including all of my time in meetings. This time breakdown goes into my monthly report. I do not call any meetings. It is always the PM or another manager setting up meetings and wanting me to be in it. The PM, and the CTO, and other higher ups get very upset, at me, when they see that I log between 40 and 90 hours per month in meetings. I am to blame for this apparently. And they also wonder why development is slow. But this is also a case of more managers than there are developers. It is also why I am looking to move on at the earliest opportunity.