Bad Meetings: A Price You Can’t (and Shouldn’t) Pay

Picture this: It’s Tuesday morning. You’re stuck in yet another meeting, the third since Monday and you have 10 more to go until Friday. Your co-workers just walked in. You’ve been waiting for 10 minutes already. Then, they fiddle with the conferencing tech for another five minutes before the meeting begins. That guy who’s driving his car joins the call and you can ba..rare..liy (barely) hear him.

And, if this wasn’t bad enough, the organizer didn’t prepare an agenda and is flipping through his notes to figure out what to discuss. Half the people are busy on their mobile phones, the other half are daydreaming or chit chatting. You look at the clock, only 15 more minutes of torture to go, but your premature sigh of relief is cut short by the organizer. “Sorry for the late start, I hope we can extend the meeting by 15 minutes,” he says.

Yes, you’ve just had a FML moment.

You’re not alone; scenes like this play out in conference rooms across companies every day. On average, every week employees participate in 9 meetings while managers and executives attend 13 meetings. Just do a quick count of meetings you attended last week if you think you’re immune to the epidemic of “meh” meetings.

In fact, meetings have become such a pervasive part of our work culture that professionals spend 275 million hours in 56 million meetings, every day, in the US alone and 60% of those meetings are deemed wasteful by them. People are wasting time and companies are losing money, both of which could be put to good use.

Ever wonder how much more time you’d have to do the things you love with the people you care about if you didn’t have to attend bad meetings? Or what good could be done with all that money that just goes to waste? Our analysts took a crack at the mental math for you.

Alright, alright! You get it. You want to be a part of the movement for better meetings. How do you get started? Well, you start by inviting izi to your meetings.

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Meetings will be shorter with no time wasted on taking notes, and after a meeting, izi’s notes will make sure there are no hiccups between brainstorming, planning, and doing. izi keeps everyone on the same page; all your notes are always in one place, organized and accessible, wherever, whenever.

izi uses the latest advances in conversational AI to create meeting notes so everyone can hold effective meetings, work smarter, and collaborate better and have more time to do the things they love, with the people they love.

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