by Sejla Rahimic | Jun 2, 2020 | MeetingScience Benefits
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...
by Sejla Rahimic | Jun 2, 2020 | Why MeetingScience?
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...
by Sejla Rahimic | Jun 2, 2020 | MeetingScience Benefits
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...
by Sejla Rahimic | May 15, 2020 | Why MeetingScience?
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,...
by Sejla Rahimic | May 15, 2020 | MeetingScience Benefits
“These days, if you’re a work-from-home parent like me, your Wi-Fi is probably maxed out, your children are mastering Google Hangouts more than social studies, and you’re getting pretty adept at making breakfast while simultaneously videoconferencing with your...
by Sejla Rahimic | May 15, 2020 | Why MeetingScience?
The new normal. That is what we keep hearing: the new normal of how we live, how we work, how we survive. For the past month, we at Adweek have been experiencing many of the same things most agencies and media organizations have been going through—canceled events,...
by Sejla Rahimic | May 6, 2020 | Why MeetingScience?
What do you think about every time you receive an invitation to a business meeting? Do you picture a tedious meeting where hours drag on, but nothing much gets done? If so, you are one of the countless managers around the world that wants to improve this system to be...
by MeetingScience | May 5, 2020 | Productivity, Remote Work
From Bloomberg’s Sarah Carmichael Green (skgreen), this article points to the theoretical advantages of remote meetings. She interviewed John Hollenbeck, a professor from the Broad College of Business at Michigan State University, who cited, without evidence,...
by Sejla Rahimic | May 1, 2020 | Why MeetingScience?
“As featured on CNN, Forbes and Inc – BookAuthority identifies and rates the best books in the world, based on public mentions, recommendations, ratings and sentiment.” Check these out and maybe put some of them on your to-do list while you’re in...
by Sejla Rahimic | May 1, 2020 | MeetingScience Benefits
“Meeting overload, which is already an issue in many organizations, may be exacerbated in this current work from home environment,” said Mr. Fasciani. “Managers should poll their team to determine the degree of meeting overload that they’re experiencing, and then...
