Again, depends on the workplace. And the meeting context.
I walked into a meeting today and said “some people think it is disrespectful to have your laptop open during a meeting” and everyone laughed. And it was a diverse group, men and women, a wide age range, from different parts of the world. People are professional, respectful and notably productive in that meeting. With laptops.
Regarding a high-level executive, it’s just that those kinds of meetings are not engineering meetings.
