I hate meetings with a passion, and I work in HR data for a very large (40k+ employee) government employer in Western Europe.
I got myself in a bit of trouble by attempting to produce an automatically generated "meeting cost" report to dissuade people from having meetings.
The script pulled salary data for attendees of each meeting (pulled from Outlook calendar), length of meeting and even used the Bing maps API to capture travel costs for each attendee.
When I mentioned it to my manager, he promptly killed it. Although he is very much anti-meeting, he pointed out that it could easily be targeted by a Freedom of Information request and used as a political weapon.
