A tweet I saw a few days ago: "This meeting could have been an email. In fact, it was. But no one replied. That's why it's a meeting now."
What bothers me most about meetings is their duration. There's no need to schedule hour-long meetings.
What bothers me most about meetings is their duration. There's no need to schedule hour-long meetings.
I suspect office work defaulted to 30 minute calls because of TV/Radio broadcasts in the early 20th century, but I haven't researched this theory further.
So finish them.
"What else is on the agenda?"
"Have we covered off everything?"
"Let's schedule a separate session for that."
"I think we're aligned. Let's wrap up early."
Etc.
If an email presents some new plan or policy as a "done deal" then what is the point of spending time replying to it?