Feb 23Meetings….

• By Laura in News,
• tagged Stuff

A study conducted by the University of Minnesota found that the amount and length of meetings correlate with “negative effects” (burnout, anxiety, and depression) on its participants. No surprises here. Read on for a few reasons why frequent and long meetings suck:

They break your working day into small, incoherent pieces on a schedule incompatible with the natural breaks in your flow

They are normally all about words and abstract concepts, not real things (like a piece of code or a screen of design)

They usually contain an abysmal low amount of information conveyed per minute.

They often contain at least one moron that inevitably get his turn to waste everyone’s time with nonsense

They drift off subject easier than a rear-wheel driven Chicago cab in heavy snow

They frequently have agendas so vague nobody is really sure what its about

They require thorough preparation that people rarely do anyway