Brits say they get stuck in three unnecessary meetings each week - with nearly half turning off their camera on a video call and getting on with other tasks
Office workers waste 213 hours a year in meetings which could have been covered in an email – the equivalent of 27 working days, according to research.
Workers sit through an average of three unnecessary meetings each week – which they “zone out” of after just 10 minutes and 36 seconds. “The commercial impact on businesses can be significant. Essentially, every minute spent in an unproductive meeting is a minute not spent on revenue-generating activities.
The research went on to find that six in ten believe the subject matter is typically the main reason for a meeting to be boring, while 44 per cent lay the blame with the person leading the meeting, which causes it to become tedious. And 47 per cent went on to say that keeping it under the half-hour mark is important, to ensure they are engaging and productive.
Mike Anderson, also from Brother UK, added: “The UK has a problem with meaningless meetings – and in the pursuit of better productivity, we have to get more businesses to kick the habit of needless calls and catch-ups that waste time.
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