Having too many meetings might be the most common work complaint out there.
And there are real questions about whether meetings are necessary to get things done, or if they are getting in our way far too often.
In a survey of managers across a wide range of industries, researchers Leslie Perlow, Constance Hadley, and Eunice Eun found that more than 70% of people believed meetings were unproductive and inefficient, and 65% said meetings keep them from completing their work, MIT Sloan Management Review reports.
It’s time to rethink the meeting. At Slack, executives led by example by declaring “calendar bankruptcy.” They removed all recurring meetings and one-on-ones from their calendars so that they could consider each one and add back only what was truly necessary.
This doesn’t mean there are no more meetings. It just means that leaders got a lot more intentional about the time they were taking up on people’s calendars, and used other methods to share important information without scheduling a get-together. Read the full story.
