Meaningful Meetings: How To Make Every Minute Count
PeopleTek News, Thursday, March 27th, 2025
So much of our workday is spent attending meetings, but is our time well spent?
We feel the intent for meetings is to provide updates, share information, encourage collaboration, set and refine strategies, recognize accomplishments, and identify obstacles, but studies show that time spent in meetings can actually be more disruptive than beneficial.
A meeting statistics report by Zippia shares that:
- American companies hold 55+ million meetings each week
- 65% of employees share that meetings prevent them from focusing on and completing their work
- 41% of time spent in meetings includes multi-tasking
- 39% of those surveyed admitted to dozing off during a work meeting
- 70% of respondents stated job satisfaction levels would improve if fewer meetings were held
These are pretty eye-opening (and revenue losing) statistics!