The State of Meetings Today

Why Do Meetings Have a Bad Reputation?

Meetings dominate the way in which we do business today. In fact, approximately 11 million meetings occur in the U.S. each and every day. Although many of us complain about meetings, we can all expect to spend our careers deeply immersed in them. Most professionals attend a total of 61.8 meetings per month and research indicates that over 50 percent of this meeting time is wasted. Assuming each of these meetings is one hour long, professionals lose 31 hours per month in unproductive meetings, or approximately four work days. Considering these statistics, it's no surprise that meetings have such a bad reputation.

How Are Unproductive Meetings Affecting Us?

Most professionals who meet on a regular basis admit to daydreaming (91%), missing meetings (96%) or missing parts of meetings (95%). A large percentage (73%) say they have brought other work to meetings and 39% say they have dozed during meetings. One might be tempted to snicker at these statistics—but have you seriously considered how these inefficiencies affect you and your organization?

Some Direct Effects of Unproductive Meetings Include:

• Meetings are longer, less efficient and generate fewer results
• More meetings are needed to accomplish objectives
• With so much time spent in ineffective meetings, employees have less time to get their own work done
• Ineffective meetings create frustration at all staff levels
• Information generated in unproductive meetings usually isn't managed properly
• Inefficient meetings cost organizations billions of dollars each year in otherwise productive employee work time

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