Ask your Google Workspace administrator to install or approve the Fire Meetings Google Meet Add-On for your organization. Once installed, join a Google Meet, open Activities → Fire Meetings, and launch the add-on from the side panel.

Open the Fire Meetings side panel and click Show on main stage.

This displays the live Time Burn or $ Burn counter to everyone in the meeting. You can switch between Time Burn and $ Burn at any time and stop sharing by clicking Stop main stage.

You can access the FM Dashboard at https://dashboard.firemeetings.io/ and sign in with your company Google Workspace account.

The Dashboard lets administrators configure salaries, review meeting analytics, and monitor meeting trends across the organization. Individuals will be able to see their own meeting data but not the org wide data.

Time Burn shows the total participant time spent in a meeting.

$ Burn converts that time into an estimated meeting cost using employee salary information. If a salary has not been configured, Fire Meetings uses the default annual salary of $100,000.

We divide Total Comp by 1950 hours to get an hourly rate and then again by 60 to get a burn by minute rate. Then by 60 again to get a per second $ burn rate for each participant, which then gets combined from all participants to give a total burn amount.

We use 1950 instead of 2000 because this more accurately reflects effective working hours. It accounts for things like PTO, holidays, sick days and is useful for internal cost analyses and productivity calculations.

Fire Meetings uses a default annual salary of $100,000 for employees who do not yet have a salary configured. This allows meeting cost calculations to work immediately.

For more accurate meeting cost tracking, an administrator can enter employee salaries in the FM Dashboard. Once configured, Fire Meetings automatically uses those values instead of the default.

No.

Fire Meetings does not record audio or video from your meetings.

No.

Transcripts are only added when an administrator or authorized user manually uploads or imports one into the Dashboard.

Only authorized administrators can view or edit employee salary information.

Regular users never see other employees' salaries.

Meeting costs depend on employee salary information.

If some users still use the default salary, or salaries haven't been configured yet, the displayed meeting cost will be an estimate.

Yes.

Guest participants can contribute to total meeting time by toggling ‘Track External Participants’ under the Company Settings tab. If Google Meet does not provide an authenticated identity for a guests, Fire Meetings stores only the anonymous participant identifier provided by Google.