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Meetings are Bad For You

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the listen-up-ostg dept.

19061969 writes "Though this is obvious to most of us, your PHB's might benefit from knowing that meetings are bad for you. Two psychologists have found evidence that the number of and the time spent in meetings has a detrimental effect on mood. "...a general relationship between meeting load and the employee's level of fatigue and subjective workload was found", write the authors after conducting a diary study. Perhaps we should be more understanding with our moody bosses?"

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  1. Action items by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Let's meet and discuss some action items to deal with that.

  2. This will get discussed further...... by NiteShaed · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Great, now I can probably expect to get invited to a series of meetings to discuss the detrimental effects of attending meetings......

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