What percentage of your work day is taken up by meetings?

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Same as the others - 75-80% on average. Being virtual means that I can sometimes try to multi-task during meetings. But I genuinely hate not being present, and doing something while in a meeting can often be counter productive.

It’s difficult to push back on not attending - in my role it’s important for me to have visibility and learn from all internal stakeholders and departments.

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Same here. I’m rarely fully present and always thinking I could be so much more effective if I paid full attention.

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75-80%

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80% and I usually don't have a solid amount of time in between meetings to focus and get stuff done. It's draining

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Exactly the same. And my company actually bought software to facilitate this. Clockwise, a Google (Outlook too?) Calendars plug-in. It's awesome.

It schedules and rearranges your focus blocks to make sure you get some. It will also rearrange meetings where you give it permission to help clump them in blocks.

Lastly, people at my company usually schedule 50 minute hours, 25 minute half hours, or 15 minute meetings. This gives time for bathroom breaks, coffee, stretching the legs, etc.

Mine dropped to about 60% when we started no meeting Friday’s. Best suggestion ever.

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For me it seems like the no meeting days aren’t really honored all that much. Maybe I should push for it more from my side.

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Yep, 80% but I protect that 20% like the crown jewels.

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85%. But we do have a good delegation system so I am able to get my responsibilities done outside of them and I am one of the few people who does not mind meetings. I have a good team - it makes a world of difference.

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I can't wait for this, personally. I am on a team of one at the moment and no one to delegate to/help out with the PO level tasks I'm taking on.

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Agree with others. But more recently have been doing a once in a couple of weeks calendar purge - to make sure I make time to do actual work. Been working pretty well so far. Still at least 50% though.

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Our new CEO has started doing this and encouraging individuals and teams to do so, too.

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The major culprit are the unarticulated cultural consensus agreements that:

* meetings are a proxy measure of productivity
* being included in a meeting is a mark of importance.

These are both demonstrably false.

Even articulating these lies starts to reveal their falsity.

* producing an outcome is productivity. Meetings volume can be outcome dense or outcome sparse and the fact of having had a meeting does nothing to indicate outcome.

* meetings are best suited for multi-way consultation. In theory, one ought to be included in a meeting only if one is important for producing the meeting's intended outcome as part of that consultation. It might not be a very important outcome or it might not. But the fact of it being done in a meeting doesn't make the outcome more or less important, or your contribution to it.

I'm 90+ days into my new, current company, so I've been pretty meek up until lately. But with my boss's hearty blessing and the new CEO's adamant preaching and example-setting as authorities, I'm starting to resist my unnecessary inclusion in meetings.

The approach I'm working on refining for deployment goes something like this:

"If I only need to be informed of those outcomes, please send me a few bullet points, please. Alternately, if you are able to articulate a few specific questions, send them over and I'll respond. I promise I'll read and respond, but if you invite me to a meeting that I didn't need to attend, I won't come to another one."

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It fluctuates on the timelines; 40-80%. When working with a tech team, many agile ceremonies fill my calendar quickly, but when I don’t have a team (ie strategic work) I find I have more control of my calendar and can prioritize or reschedule/push off meetings that are not important.

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