While workers around the world are still adjusting to the dynamics of virtual business meetings, new data suggests that the length of the average meeting is down by 20% since the onset of Covid-19.
The study, conducted by the US National Bureau of Economic Research, draws from aggregated metadata on emails and meetings from more than three million users in North America, Europe and the Middle East, both eight weeks before and eight weeks after government-mandated lockdowns. Although researchers have found that the average number of meetings a person attends per day is up 12.9%, they have noticed that people spend less time in meetings per day in the post-lockdown period .
"With everyone working at home, however, short meetings could serve to quickly communicate new plans, share work that has been accomplished, increase accountability, calibrate priorities, provide social support, and achieve other purposes that are often handled informally in office settings," the authors suggest.
"On the other hand, the change in work schedule may be a consequence of a blurred distinction between work and personal life, in which it becomes easy to overwork due to the lack of clear delineation between the office and home," they added. – AFP Relaxnews
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