A quick review of recent studies turns up the same discouraging statistics about meetings. Though leaders rarely set out to waste their team’s time, research shows that the problem of ineffective meetings has gotten worse since the transition to remote work. [1] A study conducted by Harvard Business Review finds that about 70% of meetings keep employees from doing the real work they are accountable for completing. During the pandemic, average meeting length dropped by roughly 20%, but the number of meetings per person rose by 13.5%, fragmenting attention and leaving less uninterrupted time for execution. For organizations that rely on cross‑functional collaboration (horizontal work), that fragmentation becomes more than an annoyance; it becomes a structural drag on performance. [2]
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