Varewulf

I Am A Delight

Old queer trans woman from Norway. Mainly post in English. I write stuff sometimes. Expect bad jokes. Girls and cats are nice.


I feel like I once heard that someone had made a study into whether there is any point to "work meetings", and found that they were not helpful for the workers (or productivity) at all, but just a way for management to flex their power by forcing employees into paying attention for an hour or two.
Though since I can't really remember, I also can't provide a source. My gut feeling is that it's correct, though.


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So a thing about meetings is that it's rarely where a decision gets made. It's about everyone getting together to discuss a decision that's going to get made or one that's been made. In other words it's all the chit chat to get out the way so that a decision can be made or implemented. Once you understand this, that it's so everyone gets to have their say and knows what's going on, you 1. run better meetings; and 2. get less frustrated that nothing gets decided in a meeting.

To put it another way, meeting are about the social aspects of making a decision rather than the mechanics. Which means that yes, sometimes, even with good meetings and managers, it's about explaining who's in charge.