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A recent poll of 500 office workers has found that the average UK worker will spend about a year of their life in pointless meetings.<\/p>\n
According to the survey, an office worker on average spends 16 hours in meetings each week and around a quarter of this time is wasted. That’s almost nine full 24-hour days each year. Or a year and ten days over a career.<\/p>\n
Public sector office workers spend even more time in meetings – 22 hours a week with a third of this deemed needless<\/p>\n
The survey cited going round in circles, irrelevant agenda items and hours of unresolved discussions as comprising the main wastage.<\/p>\n
“I work for the local authority and the number of meetings I have to attend is quite unbelievable,” said one respondent. “I’m required at attend meetings just about every day of the week. Sometimes it feels like I spend more of my time inside meetings talking about my job than I do sat behind my desk doing it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A recent poll of 500 office workers has found that the average UK worker will spend about a year of their life in pointless meetings. According to the survey, an office worker on average spends 16 hours in meetings each week and around a quarter of this time is wasted. That’s almost nine full 24-hour […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Office_Workers"],"yoast_head":"\n