Introducing: Fire Meetings

We built a thing.

Real change starts from the bottom up. Sure, leaders can look to initiate institutional changes by force or modeling specific behavior, but it’s the body politic that must embrace the spirit of the change in order for it to be lasting.

This is the type of radical change we had in mind when we created Fire Meetings. Currently what exists are databases of semi-accurate data that get pored over by management at periodic intervals, resulting in a decree along the lines of “spend less time in meetings.” But no real change comes from this. 

Fire Meetings is designed to elicit a visceral, real-time response at the individual level. Giving rank and file employees a visual reminder of how much money is being spent during a meeting, allows them the autonomy to weigh that ‘burn’ against overall meeting content. Our hope is this inspires the behavior of running meetings more efficiently and wrapping them up promptly when the burn-to-benefit balance reaches an obvious tipping point.

Earlier this week our (free) chrome extension went live. It’s an early and rudimentary version of what we eventually envision, but new ideas benefit greatly from user feedback. You can try it out for yourself here: Fire Meetings Extension

Next up on the build docket will be our Teams Edition. This will come with roles, data integration and reporting. Yes, we will have dashboards for managers to pore over because companies like that kind of thing and we’d like to keep the lights on. But at the end of the day the goal is the same. Most meetings are a waste of time and include more people then they should. This creates a longer day for everyone and we want to give the common worker back some of their workday. This results in a healthier work-life balance and healthy employees have better quality of work and more bandwidth for innovation. Sounds like a win / win!

Send thoughts, questions or feedback to firemeetings@thirdeyetech.io. And if you are interested in learning more about Fire Meetings please visit the Fire Meetings Website.