New Study Reveals Why Meetings Are So Unbearable
Frequent interruptions, cell-phone use, and a lack of bathroom breaks are among the many complaints employees have.
From: Inc.com By: Tamara Schweitzer
Whether it’s a cell phone ringing or your co-workers whispering next to you, there’s no shortage of annoying meeting behavior. And now there’s evidence to back it up.Disorganization tops the list as the biggest frustration for meeting attendees, according to a new “Ouch Point” study by Opinion Research USA that measured the tolerance thresholds of U.S. workers at business meetings.
Of 1,037 full- or part-time workers polled, 27 percent ranked disorganized, rambling meetings as their top frustration, followed by 17 percent who said they were annoyed by peers who interrupt and try to dominate meetings.
Surprisingly, respondents considered BlackBerry use less intrusive than people falling asleep during a meeting — 9 percent of respondents were bothered by co-workers nodding off, compared to just 5 percent who said they get frustrated by others checking e-mail. Respondents also cited cell-phone interruptions (16 percent) and meetings without refreshments (6 percent) as more annoying than the much-maligned BlackBerry.
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Corra has sat through its own share of meetings. Most meetings are boring for sure, and often punctuated by certain employees attempting to pump up their own self-importance by talking way too long. In fact, we have been to meetings where watching that clock made watching the old classroom clock at school pale by comparison.
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