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Why meetings can harm employee well-being

By Willem Standaert, Associate Professor, Université de Liège

Anyone working in an organisation knows it: meetings follow one after another at a frantic pace. On average, managers spend 23 hours a week in meetings. Much of what happens in them is considered to be of low value, or even entirely counterproductive. The paradox is that bad meetings generate even more meetings… in an attempt to repair the damage caused by previous ones.

And yet, for a long time, meetings were not subject of…

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