App idea: a tool that displays a live "salary clock" showing how much was spent during a meeting.
Good for ditching useless meetings and contextualizing non-personnel spend
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"Sure, you can schedule an all-hands meeting but it'll cost us *checks notes* $x00,000."
"For the venue and coffee?"
"Oh no, just to pay people to attend"
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"Let's have a meeting to discuss buying a site license for the salary clock tool."
The tool helpfully informs you that an annual site license ($500) is cheaper than a single 1 hour meeting with the whole team.
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Yeah, people really do treat headcount as a fixed cost and then quibble over tiny non-fixed costs. Or maybe a broader "salary is someone else's budget" sort of thing.