Medieval Solutions Don’t Work to Make Modern Meetings Better

he modern meeting is broken, yet we see a 153% increase in meetings over the last two years. We’re piling bad meetings on top of bad meetings, with the hope that things will magically change using medieval solutions like “No Meeting Mondays”.

In the last week, several studies brought light into the disconnect between employees and managers as it relates to productivity and its impact on the number of meetings that we attend:

* 85% of managers worry they can’t tell if employees are getting enough work done, while 87% of employees say they are productive

* The CEO of Microsoft stating that, productivity paranoia results in actions like spying on employees

* The concept of productivity theater, where employees prioritize actions that look like they are working versus actual work

* 1 in 3 employees accepting and sitting in on meetings where they know they should be a participant

Disappointed that "medieval solutions" didn't involve jousting or putting slackers in the stocks.