Reducing the Cost of Excessive Meetings

Meetings may be a necessary part of office life—but they are also perhaps one of the most dreaded. Few people really enjoy meetings, and even those who find them useful in general will usually admit that they tend to take way more time than they should.

Long and unproductive meetings aren’t just annoying—they are also incredibly wasteful, both in terms of time and money. A recent study showed that the average professional loses 31 hours per month to unproductive meetings.

If you work in a company where there are way too many needless meetings, the article suggests a tool that might help: an app that calculates the cost (in terms of lost revenue) of your useless meeting. Maybe this will help you demonstrate to your colleagues why it would be beneficial to cut down on some meetings.

And if you’re the one running the meeting, this article has some tips on keeping them short and on target.

How do you keep from wasting lots of your time at meetings? Share tips in the comments.

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