Daily meetings affect productivity over two hours: Slack survey
Effective meetings are essential to development, but long meetings might backfire by making people tired and less focused, according to the most recent Slack Technologies poll.
Daily meetings affect productivity over two hours. Slack’s Workforce Index uncovers new findings on how to structure the workday to maximize employee productivity, wellbeing, and satisfaction.
New research on the best ways to organize the workday to enhance employee happiness, productivity, and well-being is revealed by Slack’s Workforce Index.
What is the cost of the way you spend your time at work? Based on survey responses from over 10,000 desk workers worldwide, Slack’s Workforce Index reveals fresh insights on how to organize the workday to enhance employee wellness and happiness while optimizing productivity.
Meetings are an essential component of every organizational environment. These conversations—with seniors, juniors, or peers—signify the first steps toward tackling a variety of problems and looking for answers. These important meetings moved into a virtual setting during the lockdown era, a tendency that continues with remote or hybrid work models. But did you know that every meeting that lasts longer than two hours, in person or virtually, tends to discourage productivity?
Effective meetings are essential to development, but long meetings might backfire by making people tired and less focused, according to the most recent Slack Technologies poll.
Employees are becoming more and more concerned about long meetings that take away from their ability to concentrate on important work. As a result, a number of businesses are implementing plans to reduce meeting overload.
Initiatives to tackle this issue head-on, such as a week-long break from internal meetings or a total stop on Fridays, are becoming more and more popular. According to surveys, executives and employees generally agree that there are too many meetings, which leaves little time for important activities.
Workers are frequently forced to put in longer hours due to this overflow, which makes it harder for them to distinguish between work and personal obligations. This has an impact on their work-life balance and, ultimately, productivity.
Not only is this trend inconvenient, but it also uses up resources. Unnecessary meetings are costing large organizations millions of dollars, which has prompted an investigation into workable alternatives.
Techniques include creating cost-estimating tools for meetings and setting aside certain times for them. In addition, methods that record meeting highlights and provide succinct summaries are being developed with the intention of reducing the duration of meetings. These creative solutions aim to simplify communication and lessen reliance on drawn-out meetings.
The survey identified:
- Employees who log off at the end of the workday register 20% higher productivity scores than those who feel obligated to work after hours.
- Making time for breaks during the workday improves employee productivity and wellbeing, and yet half of all desk workers say they rarely or never take breaks.
- On average, desk workers say that the ideal amount of focus time is around four hours a day, and more than two hours a day in meetings is the tipping point at which a majority of workers feel overburdened by meetings.
- Three out of every four desk workers report working in the 3 to 6 p.m. timeframe, but of those, only one in four considers these hours highly productive.
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