About Meeting Or Not

The Problem We're Trying to Solve

Somewhere along the way, "let's set up a meeting" became the default response to almost every workplace question. Need a decision? Meeting. Have an update? Meeting. Want feedback on a document? Believe it or not — meeting.

The result is calendars so fragmented that actual work gets squeezed into the gaps. Survey after survey finds that knowledge workers consider a large share of their meetings unnecessary, yet the invites keep coming, mostly out of habit. Nobody pauses to ask the obvious question first: is a live meeting actually the best format for this?

Meeting Or Not exists to make that pause take thirty seconds instead of zero. Answer six quick questions about what you're trying to communicate, and the quiz tells you whether it deserves a calendar slot — or whether an email, a quick message, or a shared document would get you a better result with less disruption.

How the Verdict Is Decided

The quiz isn't magic and it isn't AI guesswork — it's a transparent scoring model. Each of the six questions measures one dimension of your communication: the goal, the audience size, the urgency, how much back-and-forth it needs, how complex the topic is, and what a successful outcome looks like. Every answer assigns weighted points to four candidate formats (meeting, email, message, document). At the end, the format with the highest total wins, and the confidence bar shows how decisive the win was.

The weights are informed by published research on meeting effectiveness and workplace communication — including work from Asana, Atlassian, Microsoft's Work Trend Index, and academic research on attention and context switching. The quiz runs entirely in your browser: your answers are never sent to a server, stored, or analyzed by us.

Who's Behind This

Meeting Or Not is an independent project built and maintained by Al Nevarez. There's no software vendor behind it, no consulting upsell at the end of the quiz, and no lead-capture form lurking behind the verdict. It's a free utility, supported by ads, made by someone who believes half the meetings on your calendar this week could have been a well-written paragraph.

It's the companion site to Meeting Price Tag, which answers the follow-up question: if it does need to be a meeting, what will that meeting cost?

We also publish articles on meeting culture, communication formats, and the habits that make teams faster. When we cite a statistic, we aim to name its source; when we're offering opinion or drawing on general industry experience, we try to make that clear too. Spot something wrong? Tell us and we'll fix it.

A Note on Advertising

This site is free to use and is funded by advertising. Ads are served by third-party networks and never influence the quiz verdicts or what we write. Details on how advertising cookies work — and how to opt out of personalized ads — are in our Privacy Policy.