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Meeting Recovery Syndrome is Real
The meeting that could have been an email is eating up more than just time.
Have you ever noticed that when your calendar is full of meetings, you find it hard to actually get work done? Even if you still have plenty of time?
It’s called Meeting Recovery Syndrome.
Meetings, especially pointless ones, take up more than our time. They suck up energy — in fact, meetings may be the Energy Vampires of our work life.
Meetings = Multitasking on Steroids
You’ve probably read that “being good at multitasking” is a myth. Context switching drains our ability to focus. Our brains are wired for monotasking.
So when you’re trying to do more than one thing at a time, you’re simply less efficient.
When you think you’re multitasking, you’re really just doing two things at once — task switching, rapidly. This impacts your ability to focus and you’re more prone to making errors.
What does this have to do with meetings?
Meetings Make Task-Switching Harder
Transitioning from one task to another requires cognitive effort. When the tasks don’t require a lot of attention or focus — say…
