{"id":34879,"date":"2025-10-11T10:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/this-meeting-hack-is-a-game-changer-for-productivity\/"},"modified":"2025-10-11T10:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T10:51:26","slug":"this-meeting-hack-is-a-game-changer-for-productivity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/this-meeting-hack-is-a-game-changer-for-productivity\/","title":{"rendered":"This meeting hack is a game changer for productivity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68e966731c1f80efbec566c9?format=jpeg\" alt=\"People in a meeting\"\/><figcaption>\n<p>Thomas Barwick\/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li><em>This post originally appeared in the BI Today newsletter.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>You can sign up for <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/subscription\/newsletter\/insider-today\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Business Insider&#039;s daily newsletter here<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#039;s no secret \u2014 at least it shouldn&#039;t be for longtime Saturday readers \u2014 that I hate meetings, but I recently unlocked a new solution that I have to shout from the rooftops for other meeting haters like me.<\/p>\n<p>I initially wrote about my disdain for meetings last November when I was averaging 18.3 hours a week in meetings, or about half my workday. If you can believe it, it has only increased since then, as my Google calendar indicates that I&#039;m now spending 19 hours a week in meetings.<\/p>\n<p>And that doesn&#039;t account for the time it takes to prepare for those meetings and execute any follow-up.<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m not alone. A 2025 Microsoft study that analyzed employees&#039; workplace habits from 31 countries found that, on average, employees are interrupted every two minutes &quot;by meetings, emails, or pings.&quot; A 2023 Microsoft study found that inefficient meetings were the top productivity culprit, with 68% of respondents reporting a lack of time to focus during their workdays.<\/p>\n<p>So, how did I free myself from non-stop meetings? I decided to stack them on only two days of my workweek. It left the rest of my week to actually complete my to-do list \u2014 for once.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting stacking, as I&#039;m calling it, first requires communicating my goal to my team and having them understand why I&#039;m doing it. It also requires flexibility. For example, if my manager wants to meet, we&#039;re meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Still, in general, it&#039;s been transformative for my productivity. I no longer have to switch back and forth between meetings and heads-down work, which can be challenging. It also allows me more time to think, create, and ideate on the days when I&#039;m not having face-to-face meetings.<\/p>\n<p>Want to try it? Please do, and tell me how it goes for you.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thomas Barwick\/ Getty Images This post originally appeared in the BI Today newsletter. You can sign up for Business Insider&#039;s daily newsletter here. It&#039;s no secret \u2014 at least it shouldn&#039;t be for longtime Saturday readers \u2014 that I hate meetings, but I recently unlocked a new solution that I have to shout from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}