Productivity | 1 in 10 employees book BOGUS meetings

Ten per cent of workers regularly book fake meetings at work to keep colleagues thinking they are busier than they really are, new research from Synergy SKY has revealed.

The study found that the average UK worker who books fake meetings is clocking up some three hours per week or, over 150 hours a year, in ‘fake meeting time’.

This translated to just over a whole month of deliberately wasted meeting-resources and time per year. Synergy SKY’s research, which analysed over 2,500 meetings in 2019, looked at how many meetings were being booked and compared it with the number of employees that actually showed up using software that tracks physical attendance in meeting rooms.

Whilst everyone appreciates that meetings get moved or cancelled frequently due to various factors, it’s when workers repeatedly book meetings that nobody is attending that raises the question – why?