IDG Contributor Network: This Microsoft analytics platform lets you put a dollar value on meetings

In the 90s, during my long corporate tenure, I spent my waking life in meetings. We were fixated on them. We had status meetings, project update meetings, team meetings, executive meetings--you name it. I’ve heard from friends in IT that meetings are not as common as they were back them, especially since you can chat on Slack now or make a quick Skype conference call, but they are far from extinct.

If we had a tool like Microsoft Delve Analytics, a free add-on for Outlook and for Office 365, we would have been more diligent about weeding out some of those meetings. It’s essentially a productivity dashboard that looks at how you spend your time.

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