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The true cost of meetings, by the numbers - WorkLife

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_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Packed calendars, scheduling conflicts and different time zones are some factors driving meetings to swallow employees’ workdays, ultimately taking them away from completing real tasks and actually being productive. It’s an issue that’s only gotten worse with hybrid work and since much of our work is still done virtually. “It’s become so easy to get people into a video conference that it’s sucking up more time and energy than it did even before the pandemic,” said Rob Sadow, CEO and cofounder of Scoop, a hybrid work planning tools provider. Employees in a survey last year including over 30,000 respondents from Microsoft listed inefficient meetings as the top disruption to their own productivity. “They should really be spending their time on having high-quality meetings and doing things that move the business forward or move their careers forward,” said Henry Shapiro, Reclaim AI

The average worker spends about 37% of their time at work in meetings or coordinating them. Workers spend about half a workday per week just scheduling meetings. That time spent in meetings and managing them costs employers an annual average of over $29,000. The average worker attends about 6 team and internal meetings a week, about 5 one-on-one meetings, and about 5 external meetings. Internal meetings are the most common recurring meeting but also most often rescheduled. Coordinating and rescheduling those costs employers an average of over $5,000 annually. Since February 2020, people are in

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