December 4, 2024
The Boston Globe recently published an article featuring Constance Noonan Hadley, Research Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, discussing how the rise of remote work and virtual meetings has led to a meeting epidemic, with workers spending more time in meetings than ever before.
Curriculum Associates employees spent over 4.7 million minutes in meetings in one month, prompting companies like Lexia and Fidelity Bank to tackle this issue. Efforts to streamline meetings, such as reducing meeting lengths and only inviting essential participants, have saved thousands of hours of productivity.
“It’s a chronic problem that affects many, many people. It makes their work-life balance worse, and it makes their well-being worse at work,” Hadley adds.
The key to improving meeting culture lies in data-driven approaches and company-wide alignment, ensuring that meetings are necessary, efficient, and not disruptive to employees’ well-being.