Opinion: Start meetings ontime - "give it a few minutes" is rude to other attendees
I attend a lot of online meetings nowadays, and I can’t tell you how often at meeting that starts at 10 AM actually ends up starting at 10:05 AM or 10:10 AM to cater for people who are running late. Right now I’m in yet another meeting that hasn’t started yet, as we’re just “giving it a few minutes for stragglers to join”.
Now it’s a different story if there is a specific person who really is needed in the meeting, and they’ve let you know they are running a few minutes late. But I see this as routine in pretty much every meeting I attend. Meetings almost never start at the correct time.
2019-09-10