How much is your team wasting in meetings that produce nothing?
Calculate the real cost of unproductive meetings. Most enterprise teams waste 60% of their meeting time before a single decision is validated.
Number of people in meetings
8
Average hourly cost per person
Meeting length
Meetings per week
5
% of meetings that feel unproductive
60%
Your team wastes this much every year:
£112,320
in meetings that produce no decisions
Per meeting
£780
Wasted weekly
£2,340
Hours wasted / year
1,152
Equivalent hires
1.7
What this means for your team:
That's £2,340 per week burned before a single product move is validated.
You could hire 1.7 full-time designers or developers with that annual budget.
1,152 hours per year spent talking without clarity — that's 24 weeks of pure waste.
60% of your meeting time produces no outcome. The enterprise average is 60% — you're exactly average.
There's a better way
What if you could solve the same problems in 5 days instead of 5 months?
The budget and time your team is burning on unproductive meetings is enough to train your entire team in the Design Sprint method — a proven framework used by Google, LEGO, and Slack to go from problem to validated solution in a single week.
The meeting loop
- Weeks of back-and-forth with no conclusion
- Decisions made by the loudest voice
- Ideas discussed but never tested
- High cost, low output
- Team energy and morale drain
Design Sprint method
- Structured 5-day problem-solving sprint
- Everyone's voice heard through proven exercises
- Real prototype tested with real users
- Decisions made with evidence, not opinion
- Team aligned, energised, and moving fast
With £112,320 wasted annually, you could run multiple Design Sprint training programmes for your entire team — and still come out ahead. Stop spending on the problem. Invest in the solution.