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A new study performed by Steven Rogelberg, a professor in industrial organizational psychology (can you get more specialized than that?), from the University of UNC-Charlotte revealed that people either enjoy or don’t mind going to meetings more often than they don’t like going to them.

Posted On 03.17.08

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Nathan Snell
March 18, 2008 12:52 pm

Haha, great find! I agree, that is a bit of a ridiculous study. If someone takes a survey of a company and finds their employee's like meetings, that company ought to work on their employee engagement.

I would also venture to say that any worthwhile /company/ hates meetings and tries to have them as infrequently as possible. Reason being most companies don't do meetings right, so they take away from people doing actual work (or building relationships with co-workers).

Again, good, humorous find!

t h rive
March 18, 2008 2:24 pm

I agree too my friend. Even the most useless Staff Meetings are a good reason to sit there and just kind of listen.

Then talk about how nothing happened for 15 more minutes.

jaywigley
March 18, 2008 3:37 pm

The other thing is that employees might be "listened to" only if they call a meeting, or attend a meeting that the manager called. But that is just another sign of corporate disfunction--only listening in traditional ways.

GenerationXpert
March 19, 2008 12:14 pm

When I first starting read this, I thought, "Oh, you're not going to agree with these Babyboomers are you?" But you are so right. Meetings are the biggest time suckers around. People who telecommute don't have unnecessary meetings, just because they are a waste of time. And that time comes out your personal time rather than time you are stuck at the office.

Meetings are the result of offices being set up on an industrial model - even though they are not usually factories.

Erik Folgate
March 19, 2008 12:30 pm

I'm glad that you all agree with me on this one. I wasn't sure what the response would be.

Traditional meetings are completely out-dated. There are companies out there that will STILL spending thousands of dollars to fly in co-workers from other branches to have a two hour meeting.

Hello, have you ever heard of a teleconference? Again, most meetings are still held in stuffy, dark conference rooms. Big business needs to wake up and inject something fresh into meetings if they truly want people to enjoy them and get something out of them.

Nathan Snell
March 20, 2008 4:09 am

I'm not sure which is worse. The more traditional meetings or the 'meetings' that are called to have decision by committee (blah).

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