Idk, meetings can be stresful sometimes. 99% waste of time combined with 1% being put on the spot where if you accidentally say something stupid could have significant consequences (e.g. maybe you just agreed to a bunch of extra work. Maybe you just accidentally undermined someone, etc).
Of course depends on corporate culture.
Re:Meetings *Are* the Work
by whiplash451 on Saturday February 25, 2023 @01:06PM
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Totally agree. Meetings have a massive mental cost for that reason. Evidence is how draining a set of back-to-back meetings is. Much more exhausting than the same amount of time spent in « deep work ».
"pigs and chickens": A pig and a chicken are about to open a restaurant called "Ham and Eggs". The chickens are involved, but the pigs are committed.
When involvement in the meeting and commitment to the execution of the meeting's outcome are inversely related, stress ensues.
In my experience, meetings burn people out because they can see how un-stressed and un-busy their coworkers are, while they all sit in a room and come up with more ways to pile it on.
If you’ve been the one person in a room of 10 people deciding what to do with you next, you know how insane this feels.