We just had a meeting about working smarter this year and then immediately added two more standing meetings. That contradiction feels very familiar. How are you handling the meeting overload?

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I block my calendar for when I’m in the lab, then tentatively accept meetings unless my manager says they’re mandatory.

I do what I can to avoid meetings, but there are only so many excuses one can deploy. Lately it hasn't been too bad, but we've gone through periods where people seemed to believe having the meetings was the actual work. That's a bad routine to get into, meetings beget meetings and it's hard to find time to actually get work done.

Not well. Feels like it’s been back-to-back meetings since we’ve officially started the new year. Hoping we will move past this phase soon.

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