Many workers believe that they productivity are being hampered by group meetings they consider ‘pointless’, new research says.
Project management communication posture released its fourth annual Anatomy of Work Index, surveying nearly 10,000 knowledge workers from around the world.
It found that 58% of workers’ days were spent in non-essential meetings, rather than on the actual work they were hired to do. While this number is down in 2021, it has increased slightly since 2022, meaning this could create a worrying new trend for businesses, if employee characteristics about This meeting is correct.
The importance of cooperation
The report, whose research began in November 2022, found that 2.8 hours a week of a worker’s shift is spent in ‘nonsense’ meetings, up from 2.7 hours last year . For those in senior leadership positions, things are even worse, as they spend 3.6 hours a week in such meetings.
Even more worryingly, CEOs are 30% more likely to miss deadlines than other workers because they have to attend too many meetings.
32% of employees say video calls are taking up more of their time than they did last year, and 22% say the same goes for audio calls. Accompanying this fact is quantity TV affair and other applications are being used to conduct these meetings.
On average, nearly nine separate apps are used by knowledge workers to communicate in a variety of ways with colleagues, which increases to 10 for those in executive roles or higher. This again has a negative impact on productivity – 15% of knowledge workers who use 6-15 of these apps ignore notifications and notifications that require action and those who use 16 Use and above ignore 25%.
Workers also estimate that improved processes to their work processes could give them an extra 4.2 hours per week for more important work, which equates to more than six weeks of work. throughout the year.
On the topic of online transactions, just over half of workers at co-operatives reported revenue growth over the past three years. Only 28% reported such growth at companies where collaboration was weak.
Furthermore, at partnering companies, 79% feel ready to take on new challenges and 92% feel their work has real value. In contrast, at companies with a weak corporate culture, workers were four times less prepared for challenges and only 50% found value in their work.
Asana CEO Anne Raimondi said: “Current economic uncertainty forces businesses to re-imagine how teams collaborate to drive greater efficiency and growth.
They also emphasize the importance of business leaders in guiding better collaborative practices:
“Instead of adding meetings and apps for already overwhelmed employees, they can choose to innovate and create deliberate, asynchronous ways of innovation and collaboration – making the most of their time and resources. talent of their employees, while delivering better results for their clients.”
