MIT Study of 76 Companies Reveals No Meeting Days Boost Team Productivity by 73%

You’re not imagining it, we're all having too many meetings. The <a href="https://orgscience.charlotte.edu/sites/orgscience.charlotte.edu/files/media/Rogelberg%20et%20al.%20-%202007%20-%20The%20science%20and%20fiction%20of%20meetings.pdf" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">average knowledge worker</a> spends 23 hours a week in meetings. Since shifting to remote and hybrid working, meetings have steadily increased in duration and frequency, <a href="https://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/you-re-right-you-are-working-longer-and-attending-more-meetings" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">with people attending 13 percent more meetings than they were before</a>. A growing body of <a href="https://www.calendar.com/blog/the-psychological-price-of-meetings/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">research</a> is reporting that spending the majority of your workday in meetings negatively affects psychological, physical, and mental well-being. Even before the pandemic, managers thought meetings were often a poor use of people’s time. In 2017, Harvard Business School<a href="https://hbr.org/2017/07/stop-the-meeting-madness" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"> surveyed</a> 182 senior managers across multiple industries and found: · 71% said meetings were unproductive and inefficient · 65% said meetings keep them from completing their work · 64% said team meetings come at the expense of deep thinking · 62% said meetings miss opportunities to bring their teams closer together <h2>Many organizations are adopting no-meeting days</h2> One obvious solution, popular with big companies including Facebook, Asana, and Atlassian, is to ban meetings one or more days a week. It’s a common-sense tactic and has been pushed by productivity gurus for years, well before the remote work revolution. The question is, do no-meeting days work? Do they actually have a positive impact on productivity and well-being? Or simply lead to overscheduling on the designated meeting days. <a href="https://medium.com/career-of-you/mit-study-of-76-companies-reveals-no-meeting-days-boost-team-productivity-by-73-af34e53be2e5">Read More</a>