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The cost of meetings
Your team will spend 34,500 hours in meetings this year.
That's roughly $2.2M a year — and about $897K of it is wasted.
Hours in meetings / week15
Number of employees50
Average cost per hour$65
How useful are they?40%
Mostly essentialUtterly useless
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Why it matters
Meetings quietly become the most expensive — and least accountable — line item on your calendar.
The numbers above aren’t abstract. And the real waste isn’t the meeting itself — it’s everything that quietly fails to happen afterward.
The problem
Every meeting is a withdrawal
Each recurring sync multiplies a salary by an hour, then another, across the entire year. It compounds silently — and because it never hits a budget line, no one ever questions it.
The fix
Earmark makes it pay off
It captures what was said, surfaces the decisions and commitments that matter, and turns every meeting into a durable, searchable record. The cost finally buys something.
Turn meetings into your most productive hour.
Earmark records, summarizes, and tracks every commitment — so the time you spend in meetings actually adds up to something.