Google Meet early invites

I try my best to be on time for meetings. However, if I have multiple meetings stacked on top of each other, the minute one goes long, it all starts to fall apart. Thankfully if it’s just one meeting in a vacuum, I’m typically punctual.

I’ve worked with people on every end of the timeliness spectrum. Some people are always super late while others can be obnoxiously punctual. When you have a team of high performers who 1) rarely meet and 2) when they do, are on time, it gets quite annoying.

This got me thinking about Google Meet and how it can likely learn your behavior given enough time and data. What if, for the chronically late, there was a feature to invite them earlier than everyone else without them knowing?

The annoying thing about this feature is that it would likely only work 1 or 2 times. After that, people would get wise to it and just show up even later, further perpetuating their tardiness.

Some problems are hard to solve, no matter how much technology we have. Tardiness is one of them.

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