Our First Podcast

by MeetingScience | Jan 23, 2020 | Why MeetingScience?

We’re pleased to share that Eric Porres, our founder and CEO, had an opportunity to speak with the Dartmouth MBA-turned-comedian Paul Ollinger on his Crazy Money podcast on the foundation of MeetingScience and our goals for the company. You can listen here, or you can subscribe to Crazy Money on your listening platform of preference.

Fumbling Toward (Remote? Flexible? Hybrid? Office?) Ecstasy

You are not part of the first company nor the last to try and solve the post-pandemic 'how do we really work now?' problem of 2022 and beyond. Here are three recent articles on how different companies manage (or not) the transition (or not): 1) Bloomberg - Employees...

The (Not So) Surprising Impact of Meeting-Free Days

Could you reduce your meetings to zero meetings per week? Could that outweigh the perceived benefits of social interaction and cohesion? And how about productivity and stress? Determining these outcomes was the objective of a recent study published in MIT Sloan. In...

The Ultimate Guide to Meeting Agendas

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Timing May In Fact Be Everything

Daniel Pink, the best-selling author of the newly released The Power of Regret, published another New York Times best-selling book in 2018 titled When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. In that book, he reveals, through meticulous research, that, among other...

Working from home by choice or necessity? The upsides and downsides of hybrid work

According to a new report from the Pew Research Foundation, more (American) workers prefer to work from home and will continue to do so if given the choice. Among the report's highlights: Most (64%) of those who are now working from home at least some of the time but...