Tired of attending useless meetings? Turns out, your boss is probably sick of them, too.
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Executives spend an average of 25 hours a week in meetings, yet nearly half of those Zoom calls and project updates could disappear without any negative impact, according to a survey of more than 10,000 desk workers by Future Forum, a research consortium backed by Salesforce Inc.-owned Slack Technologies. The top reason why business leaders go to unproductive meetings is that they thought it would be a good use of time, but ultimately wasn’t.
The findings come as many organizations try to assess which meetings really matter, and which ones could be jettisoned in an increasingly hybrid workplace where staffers aren’t typically all in the same location. Shopify Inc.
Non-executives spend an average of 10.6 hours a week in meetings, the Future Forum survey found, and said that 43% of them could be done away with. Common tactics to reducing meeting overload include trimming the invite list, sending agendas in advance, and making sure the actual meeting tackles a set of thorny questions, not just a rundown of topics.
“There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to eliminating unnecessary meetings,” said Brian Elliott, a Slack executive who oversees the Future Forum research. “So get comfortable with experimenting and iterating.”
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