Management may think it’s a “win-win situation” to “touch base” in the meeting room for some “blue sky thinking” but really they ought to “get back to the drawing board”, research suggests.
Britain is in the midst of a meetings epidemic with the average worker now spending 213 hours a year — or 26 working days — stuck in them.
Nearly one million people spend more than half their working week in meetings. Yet at least a third of that time is entirely wasted, the study found. By far the biggest time-waster is waiting for others to arrive.
The survey of more than 1,000 workers suggests that more than 20 million people attend at least one meeting a day. The average amount of time spent