Google Engineering Manager Recommends Starting Meetings at 5 Minutes Past the Hour
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Summary
A Google Engineering Manager shares a productivity hack where teams schedule meetings to start at five minutes past the hour or half hour. This approach creates guaranteed breaks between meetings by leveraging social pressure to end on time, which is more effective than trying to finish meetings five minutes early. The article explains how this simple scheduling habit helps prevent back-to-back meeting fatigue and improves meeting efficiency.
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This works better than trying to finish five minutes early. Meetings often don't finish on time, and the impact is highest with back-to-back meetings.
But shifting the start time guarantees a break, since there is social pressure not to allow meetings to run much past the top of the hour.
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