Meetings are one of productivity’s biggest killers, zapping time and taking people away from core tasks. Preparing for meetings, having meetings about meetings, attending the ‘big’ meeting and debriefing about the meeting that just took place – no wonder many workers are searching for a more effective way to discuss in a group setting.
It has become such an issue that a governance technology firm, eShare, set out to quantify just how much time was spent and money wasted on meetings. It surveyed 1,000 office workers across the UK and found an average employee spends 10 hours and 42 minutes each week preparing for and attending 4.4 meetings, with 2.6 of those deemed unnecessary. This is estimated to cost the UK’s 5.4 million businesses about £191 billion a year.
At the extreme end of the spectrum is Elon Musk’s advice – including walking out of meetings when they waste your time and opting out of large meetings – but at Bond Williams, we prefer the more rational tips below:
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