Drowning in Meetings? Here’s Your Lifeline.
<p>New research from Microsoft shows that people are in <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/09/the-no-1-workplace-distraction-that-kills-productivity-according-to-microsoft.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">3 times more</a> meetings in 2023 than before the pandemic. How has it all gone so horribly wrong?</p>
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<h2><strong>Pre-pandemic where in-office ruled the roost</strong></h2>
<p>Let’s rewind the clock a bit - before the COVID pandemic broke out in Feburary 2020, there were less companies where remote working was the ‘norm’. Of course there were the pioneers in the remote-first camp, like GitHub and Zapier who were remote from inception, but they were the outliers. For most of us, remote was the exception to the rule, and you always felt like you had to have a plausible explanation to not feel guilty about working from home, like the plumber was coming to fix a leaking tap, or some such ‘excuse’ that you’d feel would not be challenged.</p>
<h2><strong>Post pandemic — a sudden shift but were we prepared?</strong></h2>
<p>The pandemic changed everything, but, an overnight change to remote working came suddenly, and three years later, most companies have still not figured out how to ‘do remote’ properly. Some have thrown in the towel completely and out of a sheer lack of imagination are forcing their employees back to the office. That might work for now, but when the economy turns, I predict they’ll likely have a sky high turnover rate and be forced to re-think.</p>
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