by MeetingScience | Nov 16, 2020 | Meeting Performance, MeetingScience Benefits, Productivity, Why MeetingScience?
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...
by MeetingScience | Aug 12, 2020 | Meeting Performance, MeetingScience Benefits, Productivity, Remote Work
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,...
by MeetingScience | Aug 4, 2020 | Productivity, Remote Work
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...
by MeetingScience | Jul 14, 2020 | Meeting Performance, MeetingScience Benefits, Productivity
Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management books including Off the Clock and 168 Hours. In this Medium piece, she shares the question that she asks before calling a meeting: What crucial change will result from bringing people together, that could not...
by MeetingScience | Jul 1, 2020 | Productivity
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...
by MeetingScience | Jun 23, 2020 | Why MeetingScience?
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...
by MeetingScience | Jun 18, 2020 | MeetingScience Benefits
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...
by Sejla Rahimic | Jun 2, 2020 | Why MeetingScience?
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...
by Sejla Rahimic | Jun 2, 2020 | MeetingScience Benefits
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 —...
by Sejla Rahimic | Jun 2, 2020 | Why MeetingScience?
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...
