According to an article in Popular Science, scientists found that meetings were “hassles” that caused stress. I think this is well-known to anyone who has to attend them.
One of the joys of being self-employed is that there are no internal meetings and at least client meetings are billable even if they are generally less productive than sitting at my desk actually working. Here’s the key finding:
The psychologists analyzed diary entries from 37 meeting-prone midlevel university workers over one week. They found that days chock-full of meetings left employees feeling stressed, exhausted and burned out.
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