Workers are being overwhelmed by meetings and emails, and that flood of interruptions can have consequences for companies that don’t take a proactive approach.
Experts say managers and employers who aren’t strategic about meeting quantity and quality are risking burnout, disengagement and even turnover, but there are some best practices companies can use to avoid the type of meeting mayhem that is frustrating many workers.
Monitoring and analytics platform Vyopta analyzed 40 million meetings involving more than 450,000 employees across 11 companies and found workers attended an average of 8.3 meetings a week in 2021. That number grew to 10.1 meetings a week in 2023.
Meanwhile, the rate at which some workers did not participate — such as not speaking or enabling their cameras on virtual meetings — rose among small-group meetings from 4.8% in 2022 to 7.2% in 2023.
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