%% date:: [[2024-01-06]] parent:: %% # [[Overhead]] Overhead is an incidental cost (in terms of money, time, or effort) incurred in the process of doing something else. Underestimating or not accounting for overhead in [[Productivity]] or [[Work]] can lead to [[Dealing with burnout|burnout]] or [[Overwork]]. %% > This is a weird thing to fixate on probably, but at the All-Hands today they said that we collectively clocked 21 MILLION Zoom meeting minutes, or just under 42 years' worth of meetings. 21M / 1200 people in the company / 46 working weeks in a year / 60 minutes in an hour = **6.34 hours a week of Zoom meeting minutes per person**. Pretty much a whole day. > > The other thing was 23.6M Slack messages in the year. 23600000 / 1200 people / 46 working weeks / 5 working days = **85.5 Slack messages per person per day**. %%