Despite executive time being one of the organization’s most expensive assets, most meetings waste that time because they are not designed to deliver specific strategic work.

Large companies could save as much as $100 million a year by holding fewer unnecessary meetings and cutting down on their invite lists, according to a recent study. A common refrain among workers who ...

Like millions of workers, Kaz Netajian felt strait-jacketed in what seemed like one endless meeting. "I was spending 9-to-5 in meetings," he said. "I was doing my actual work after 5, and that just ...

A 2026 study finds that using AI notetakers equalizes men's and women's speaking time in workplace meetings, which improves collaboration and decision making quality.

This column is part of The First 90 Days, a series about how to make 2025 a year of breakout growth for your business. Meetings are essential for any organization—they are platforms for communication, ...

Research consistently finds that people are in too many meetings that don’t move things forward and make it harder to get the rest of their work done. One recent survey concluded that meetings are ...

When the EdWeek Research Center polled teachers earlier this year on when in their jobs they would like to spend less time, the top answer was meetings, with 33 percent of respondents longing for less ...

Save this article to read it later. Find this story in your account’s ‘Saved for Later’ section. If you have a job that involves spending a lot of time in apps like Zoom, and if you work at a company ...

Forget happy hour — it’s meetings that are giving workers a hangover. An article recently published in the Harvard Business Review found that people can experience “meeting hangovers” after finishing ...

Most of us have a love/hate relationship with meetings. We dread attending because there’s usually a thousand other things we’d rather do with the time. Part of the problem with meetings is that we ...

There needs to be cultural permission for people to say no to meetings. In the long term, giving culture permission for people to decline meetings profoundly affects the team’s productivity, culture ...