Meeting Monster: What a price to pay!

Once in my work life, I experienced a forced situation where I had to be in many excessive meetings, which made me sacrifice my own priority work and compromise on how and when to complete it. I am a typical employee who feels fulfilled and very happy in her job when she can learn and earn a lot of things from the company while being productive and getting the work done on time. However, because of the above-mentioned forced situation, my priority tasks get dropped, shifted, or shortchanged frequently, as a result, I’ve had to steal from my personal time to finish those shifted or shortchanged priority tasks. What a price to pay! As a result, I encounter physical burnout as well as psychological distress. <img alt="" src="https://miro.medium.com/v2/resize:fit:770/1*MEY-IuRm7TPnPC1XcLG0YQ.jpeg" style="height:525px; width:700px" /> Photo by energepic.com: <a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-sitting-in-front-of-macbook-313690/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.pexels.com/photo/woman-sitting-in-front-of-macbook-313690/</a> Since 2020, the COVID pandemic has forced us into remote working and online meetings for the past two years, but nowadays, post-pandemic, when employees return to the office, remote working seems to have transformed into hybrid working and hybrid meetings. People in the company may feel obligated to return to the old way of working as they strive to establish a new normal, as indicated by a large number of meeting needs, many of which appear pointless or unproductive to the participants because they are too frequent (meeting for no reason other than habit), poorly timed is the most common, unorganized (large group meeting), resulting in cumbersome discussion and less participation that culminated in productivity and collaboration losses. <a href="https://medium.com/@findingmylegend/meeting-monster-what-a-price-to-pay-73fe78288c13">Click Here</a>