Since February 2020, people are in 3 times more Microsoft Teams meetings and calls per week at work, a 192% increase.
Inefficient meetings are the No. 1 workplace distraction that hurts productivity, according to a Microsoft survey of 31,000 workers across the globe.To make meetings more efficient, companies are leveraging recordings, email scheduling assistants, instant messaging, and AI-powered transcripts, and some are even imagining a future without meetings.
The onslaught of meetings is exhausting workers and leaving insufficient time for “deep work,” on tasks that require a higher level of focus with no distractions.