Restructuring Meetings for Better Work Days

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This chapter explores the benefits of eliminating and restructuring meetings, discussing the challenges of unproductive meetings and the concept of pluralistic ignorance. It also highlights the importance of voicing concerns about meetings, declining unnecessary invites, and the financial and opportunity costs of unnecessary meetings. The chapter concludes by emphasizing that better meetings lead to better work and better work days.

WorkLife with Adam Grant, another podcast from the TED Audio Collective is back! This season, Adam takes a look at how to find meaningful work and how to make jobs more energizing. In this first episode: meetings. Meetings often drain our joy and sap our focus — and meeting overload kills productivity. So why do we have so many of them — and is a better world possible? Adam investigates the science of improving meetings and explores how workplaces are fighting meeting bloat. Available transcripts for WorkLife can be found at go.ted.com/WLtranscripts