This year, we'll spend 392 hours in meetings. On average.
That's..umm... crazy! According to research from Flowtrace, Atlassian, and Microsoft's Work Trend Index, the average employee logs 392 hours in meetings per year. That's about 11 hours a week!
Not all of those hours are wasted. Let's be honest about that.
A decision gets made. Two people who needed to be in the same room were. Something moved forward that couldn't have moved forward any other way.
Twelve people on a call. Ten cameras off. No agenda. Someone shares a doc that could've been a Slack message. Nothing is decided. Another one is scheduled.
67% of meetings are the second kind. 64% of recurring ones have no agenda at all. The time lost to them has doubled since 2019. That works out to about 5 wasted hours a week, or 260 hours a year.
And that makes me mad.
Since dreaming is free, I started thinking of better ways to spend those 260 hours instead.
Bubbles sized by hours required. Hover or tap for context.
Some ways it could stack up
Stack the actual hours and see what fits.