I try to join about 5 minutes before because I’m terrified of being the first person or the last.
In teams you can see how many are already in.
If in hiding in try to be the first though, but not too early because people get a notification that the meeting has started. And might go on earlier than required
If I’m hosting 5 minutes early. If I’m attending, 2 minutes early unless I’m the only one attending from my org, in which case exactly on time.
My workweeks are 25 to 50% meetings, the vast majority online. I try to be exactly on time as much as possible, can’t afford to be in advance, will notify if I will be more than 3 minutes late. I send a message to participants if they are not all here after a couple of minutes, not to put pressure, but I know it’s easy to be concentrating on something and miss the meeting, it happens to me as well.
Zero minutes early to one minute late (for work ones). I hate the virtual meetings, and the software is robust enough I trust it. If it’s something else where I have to use my phone (doctor appointment or similar) then more than 5 minutes ahead to make sure I have time to reach out if it isn’t working.
1 min early, or right on time. Never late.
5 min early. If you’re not 5 min early, you’re late.
Honestly, usually it’s 4-5 min early: I’ll pop in and noodle about prepping whatever, documenting something or just staring out the window a sec to clear my head. I’m usually very satisfied I’m not late by normie standards because being on-time shows a modicum of respect to others. If it’s a shit meeting, that’s an exception. I have one where I’m noticeably barely-on-time, and everyone points it out.
I’d encourage meetings to lock at the start time if I could, so late joiners wait in the lobby until someone opens the door, and then we’ll know whom to heckle.
Three minutes before. No more. No less.
On the dot if I can.
Same here.
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Usually as soon as Teams notifies me of the first person starting the meeting.
How can you not always be the first when youre 5min early, wtf xD
Ha. Bold of you to assume I have some sort of control over these things.
If I join at all, i join whenever the stars align and it occurs to me as something needing to happen.That being said, I usually intend to join just a couple minutes early.
I shut and lock my door ten minutes before a meeting. Hit the bathroom and then usually log in for a functions check, fix my blinds and pull up the relevant group chat that doesn’t have the boss in it.
Organize my notes on my desk, get a coffee or water in front of me. Someone will always be later. I’ll sometimes be the first. Let teams let them see that I’m starting it, whatever, everyone knows I’m getting my coffee.
Also, I like to give my colleague a fifteen minute heads up since he’ll sometimes forget.
Depends on the context.
- My meeting? Right on time.
- Team meeting? On time.
- A meeting I knew about, was on my calendar, and requires my expertise? Right on time, but a lower priority.
- Something is broken and we’re grouping up? Right on time.
- A meeting on my calendar that I don’t really need to be in? 2-3 minutes after, I’ll finish what I’m currently engaged in or get to a stopping point.
- A meeting I’ve been invited to with no additional context? 2-5 minutes late.
- A meeting I was invited to with no communication/context that is before/after my normal working hours? If I remember and I’m bored.
- A meeting I was inviting a to outside of my working hours and will start before I come online? Forget about it.
I work for a global corpo, so the last two happen quite a bit. Time is money friend.
My god I need to emulate this. I’m doing it all wrong.
If I’m running the meeting, 5 minutes. If it’s large group meeting, 2 mins early. If it’s 1:1, right on time.
This is the way
I join when the meeting reminder pops up and I click “join”, right on time. I don’t like small talk, no point in being early.
Plus it’s not like there’s anything happening in the first couple minutes. The more people who are in the meeting the more likely someone will be late anyway.
I feel like people who join really early are basically saying “Tell me you have nothing to do without telling me you have nothing to do.”
Not quite. I join on time because I’m busy and if I don’t join now I will completely forget. I just keep working until everyone else gets there and the I’ll turn on my camera and mic.
Probably people who were raised by military parents. My instinct is to join early as fuck, like 10 minutes. I blame my father forcing me to show up early for everything.
If you’re early, you’re on time. If you’re on time, you’re late.
I had a job like that some years ago, where you were expected to arrive at 540-45 to pregame the day but not clock in until 6. Kind of unspoken, but you knew it was frowned upon if you showed up right at 6 by the death glares (they knew they couldn’t mandate being early because laws, but it was just a soft expectation). Someone must have said something, because they don’t do that anymore, I’m sure that went over super well for whoever said something.
Sometimes I join really early BECAUSE I have stuff to do. I lose track of time, so I’ll open the reminder and keep the room running in the background while I accomplish something else, once I hear someone talking, I’ll switch tabs and focus on the meeting.
This is me, too
I teach over teams. I plan bullshit for the first 5 - 10 minutes, because there will always be late people.
