Time Is Money

Claudia 

Long meetings are such a waste of time. You spend so much time being unproductive.

As a Lagos hustler, I always try to talk my clients out of too much physical-meeting schedule because oftentimes it's needless. 

Nigerian clients enjoy having too many meetings because most of them do not pay for it. The moment you put a cost to it, they cancel or start considering other options.  

Why charge for a meeting? Why not? Time is money! 

In a big city like Lagos, the time you spend in traffic commuting to the meeting venue would have been more useful for other things. BTW,  most of the deliberations can actually take place over instant messengers (IM) while reports/updates go over emails. 

You cannot imagine what 30 minutes conference call can achieve as opposed to wasting all that long hours in traffic and in meetings going back and forth because one person wants to "prove a point" or have the last say.

Personally, I do not like meetings at all, I hardly have any contributions because I'd be irritated by the needless drama. It can be so exhausting and boring. 

These days, I do more from home than any other location and it's actually better. 

It's peaceful, less stressful, more productive, definitely more convenient and cost effective  to work remotely.

I know that "this is Nigeria".

Just as we still prefer to shop from physical stores over online stores and trust cash transactions over transfers,  employers are still obsessed with cloaking-in-and-out-be-at-your-desk work culture.

But forward thinking organisations should be considering remote work as an option especially in a big bustling city like Lagos. I think that most of the time we spend moving and sitting around can be channeled to better use.