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Same! I started doing it this year, and it's... surprisingly difficult.

I got tired of devoting diffuse attention to meetings that don't really need me. So I've been slowly disappearing.

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At my last job, I would simply reply with "Agenda?" before accepting a meeting invite. Nobody ever complained. Also, setting a good example helped.

This is a good one. In some company cultures, unfortunately, recurring meetings are group therapies in disguise.

Of course. And group therapies are great! Especially, if you are trying to get a rid of addiction or get over some thing from your past.

But group therapy make a little sense for a person that is in a different stage of his/her life.

In other words, calm and happy person in Europe, cannot help structurally unhappy person in the US, just by the means of happy hour meeting.