Since the COVID-19 pandemic, there’s been an ongoing question: Is the traditional five-day workweek really necessary, or can ...

Companies have battled the scourge of meetings for decades. When Alan Mulally took over at Ford Motor Co. in 2006, he slashed unnecessary or unduly long meetings to speed decision making. A decade ago ...

Companies have battled the scourge of meetings for decades. When Alan Mulally took over at Ford Motor Co. in 2006, he slashed unnecessary or unduly long meetings to speed decision-making.

Lost productivity from unnecessary meetings costs companies with 5,000 employees up to an estimated US$101 million a year, according to research from Otter.ai, a transcription software company, and ...

Unnecessary meetings can be costly, with one report last year finding that large companies waste up to $100 million a year on them. That report, produced for Otter.ai by UNC Charlotte professor ...

Employees who trialled a four-day work week for six months said they slept better and felt that their ability to work ...

The average cost of a 30-minute meeting with three employees can run from $700 up to $1,600, Shopify found. But if there’s an exec in the meeting, you’re looking at $2,000 and more.

Yet many pandemic-era meetings I took part in were unnecessary. Some well-meaning colleagues wanted to discuss issues that could have been resolved in a quick e-mail exchange.

In a blog post, Microsoft wrote that helping employees catch up on missed meetings was among the "easy wins" for workers and businesses looking to boost productivity with AI. For example, workers who ...

Stressing the need to curb red tape, the 21-article regulation, which was issued by the general offices of the Communist ...