Productivity | £45bn cost of 'unproductive meetings'

Pointless and unproductive meetings will cost British companies a shocking £45bn in 2019, a report from Doodle has warned.

The researchers found that the average professional spends two hours a week in pointless meetings, or over 24bn hours of working time - which will add up to over £423bn worth of resource across the world in 2019.

Professionals were also asked to rank pointless meetings against other common occurrences by how irritating they found them:

• Ineffective meetings (89%)

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