'Meeting Culture' Is Costing Companies $101 Million a Year

You may be onto something if you feel like most of your waking life is spent in busiess meetings.

One-third of an employee's working hours are spent sitting on a conference room table or on a zoom call at work.

According to a new study by the University of North Carolina Chancellor's professor, that's excessive and it's costing a lot.

According to the report, companies pay an average of $80,000 per employee to attend meetings each year. For a company of 100 people, that adds up to 2.5 million dollars a year. The number of employees in a company can reach over 100 million.

The higher the employee's salary, the more time they spend in meetings. A manager who makes $160,000 a year is wasting $12,800 of the company's money.

The meeting culture is broken and needs to be reexamined, according to Dr. Rogelberg.

Dr. Robelberg said that when employees are in meetings that they don't need to be in, they often sit there disengaged or multi- task, which distracts others and can derail the meeting. It claims essential employee productivity and time and it impacts the quality of the meeting.

How to reduce meeting overload.

Fewer Meetings Mean Happier Employees

Even though most don't, 31% of the people surveyed secretly want to decline the invitations. Many people said they were frustrated and annoyed during meetings. 70% of people said they acted out, while 45% turned the video or audio off.

When it came to getting more done, most employees said they got more done when they had long, continuous blocks of time.

Employees had solutions to reduce the number of meetings.

• Shifting the company culture to make declining meetings not so taboo.
• Distributing high-quality meeting notes, including a summary of action points.
• Inviting employees to meetings that are only relevant to them.