Which of the following activities would waste the most time?

Barry and Scott’s 20-minute small talk keeps all eight meeting members from using that time productively. That amounts to 20 × 8 = 160 person-minutes, or 2 hours and 40 minutes of work time. This is more than Rich’s one-hour rework, so the meeting small talk wastes the most time.

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