Meeting Equity Self-Audit

Why this matters

Hybrid meetings quietly harden into a two-tier system. Work Tech Institute audits and Read AI's review of 159,870 meetings found that people in the physical room take 70–80% of total talk time and speak roughly five times as often as remote attendees. The remote side cannot easily interrupt over a muffled conference mic, and when the camera is a single wide-angle lens nobody can tell who is about to speak. Metodic Playbook facilitators observe a familiar pattern: remote colleagues stay silent in the first ten minutes while the in-room group warms up, and rarely re-enter later. The cost is not politeness. QuestWorks and Croissant document the “two-tier team” effect, where remote workers are passed over for promotion about 30% more often — a visibility gap built meeting by meeting. A $150K engineer reportedly quit after his HQ-timezone team kept deciding things on his off-hours. None of that starts with malice; it starts with one lopsided standup after another.

How it works

Pick a real 30-minute meeting and keep this page open. Add each speaker, tag them in-room or remote, and tap +1 min whenever they talk; add a point per question they ask. The pie compares in-room vs remote minutes against a baseline equal to the remote share of attendees (default 50%). The deviation bar shows how far your split is from that target, and the green/yellow/red verdict sums it up. Tick the checkbox if remote people said nothing in the first ten minutes — it flags the most common remote-silence trap. Everything you tap is saved on this device, and this tool never records audio or talks to any meeting app.

What the results mean

Green: within ~20 points of baseline — facilitation is roughly fair. Yellow: the room is leaning in one direction; try opening the next meeting with “remote first” and assigning a facilitator who calls on muted names. Red: the in-room group is taking 80%+ of talk, which matches the documented 70–80% norm — that is your sign to stop side conversations, repeat remote comments out loud for the room, and move the decision to the shared doc. Copy the audit text and drop it in your team channel as a neutral data point, not a complaint.