Why meetings can harm worker wellbeing

Every meeting should start with a simple question: Why are we meeting?

The goal should not be to have fewer meetings, but better ones. File photo

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.