Axios reports that Prime Therapeutics, a pharmacy benefits manager, will use a 'hub and home' hybrid model where employees will use their home offices for individual work and then go to the company's HQ for collaboration and socialization. The company employs nearly...
In partnership with our Members, we've worked hand-in-hand to study the habits of highly successful meetings in 2020. And over 100K meetings later, we see patterns emerge that drive peak meeting performance. Here are 5 simple ways that you can get the most from your...
We're excited to announce the release of Ratings 2.0 for all MeetingScience Members! In this blog post, we'll share a little bit more about the history of MeetingScience ratings and why we made the investment to build the next generation of rating capabilities....
From CNN Business comes this article, a follow-up to the research revealed earlier in August which shows an increase in meeting load and strain during the pandemic. CNN canvassed several companies on what they're doing to reduce meeting load during the pandemic,...
Feeling overworked? You're not alone. A study of 3.1 million workers around the world found that the pandemic workday is longer and has more meetings. You can read more about the study in Bloomberg here, the research background summary here, and the full research...
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Do you work from home or live at work? In this article from The New York Times, David Streitfeld explores the history of remote work, its proponents, and its opponents. For instance, while remote work can increase the diversity of the labor pool - no longer shackled...
David Gelles writes for the Corner Office column for The New York Times. In this article, he interviews leaders from Chegg, Cisco, EventBrite, Microsoft, Pierpont Communications, Splunk, and Affirm to investigate the rise or fall of pandemic productivity and how...
Meetings - they are a part of life, but they don't need to be a way of life. In this interview, Eric Porres, Founder & CEO of MeetingScience, sits down (remotely) with Brad Berens, Editor in Chief of the IAB, to talk about what's changed to our meeting practices...
Tammy Sun, the quintessential Silicon Valley tech entrepreneur, fired off an uncharacteristically low-tech Tweet recently. “Zoom fatigue has me wanting a landline and a rotary phone,” wrote the founder and CEO of Carrot, a startup that provides fertility benefit plans...
Those of us who present, facilitate, and teach for a living understand the importance of developing a personal connection with an audience. It’s critical to be and feel natural; to make people laugh, feel at ease, and fully engage — and perhaps even lose themselves —...
In the nineteen-sixties, Jack Nilles, a physicist turned engineer, built long-range communications systems at the U.S. Air Force’s Aerial Reconnaissance Laboratory, near Dayton, Ohio. Later, at nasa, in Houston, he helped design space probes that could send messages...
You join a video conference call. You’re one of nine faces on the screen. About 10 minutes into the call, your mind starts to wander and you realize you have no idea what the last person just said. You pretend to keep listening while also checking your inbox. By the...
As business owners embrace virtual events as a cost-effective method to achieve a myriad of goals, including webinars, training, and conferences, it's important to ensure that effective communication isn't being traded for bottom-line savings. While it's unlikely that...
Workers are heeding recommendations to stay home amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new analysis of meeting scheduling behavior by x.ai, the leading platform to schedule meetings. Virtual meetings have risen more than 20.09% since the beginning of March, while...
Meetings, according to academic research, are the worst. An estimated 36 million to 56 million take place daily in US workplaces alone, according to consulting firm Lucid Meetings. They interrupt the day and thwart valuable deep work; they drain time, morale,...