Sometimes, meetings are just a waste of time

Dilbert says it all....

Nobody needs telling that meetings are a catastrophic waste of work time. But even so, it’s a little alarming to learn just how much time they can waste.

In the Harvard Business Review, three consultants from global management consulting firm Bain report the results of an exercise in which they analysed the schedules of the employees of an unnamed “large company” and concluded that one weekly executive meeting ate up a dizzying 300,000 hours a year. Which is impressive, given that each of us only has about 8,700 hours a year to begin with. Including sleep.