The tyranny of the office meeting: How meeting bloat is killing productivity via financialpost
into our day to day,” Kaz Nejatian, Shopify’s vice president of product and chief operating officer, said in an email to Bloomberg News. “We know no one joined Shopify to sit in meetings.”Article content
Shopify isn’t the only company struggling under the weight of meeting bloat. Globally, the average office worker hasnow than at the start of the pandemic, Microsoft Corp. says in a work trends report published in September. In fact, people have so many meetings that they’re getting booked on top of each other, at an increase of 46 per cent per person this past year. And there’s no sign the trend is slowing, raising concerns such a high rate could become the new normal.
But all those endless work huddles could be masking more serious problems, says Shopify’s chief executive Tobi Lütke. “ ,” he said on Twitter. “If you properly root cause them, you will find a trust issue, a clarity issue, or a missing API. Meetings can paper over these, but it’s much better to fix root cause.”Article contentIf you properly root cause them, you will find a trust issue, a clarity issue, or a missing API. Meetings can paper over these, but it’s much better to fix root cause.Indeed, “productivity paranoia” could be one reason why our calendars are so overloaded.
It’s not hard to figure out why all these meetings are killing productivity. In the case of virtual gatherings, there’s the crushing fatigue that often ensues after staring at a screen of meaningless slides for an hour. Meetings, both in person and remote, are also time stealers that prevent people from getting actual, important work done. That forces many workers to multitask — furtively sending emails, or RSVPing to yet more meetings — in an attempt to get caught up.
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