Why do we have so many meetings?

Why do we have so many meetings? Few office features are so scorned, yet apparently so necessary. This document provides the archetypal large-scale financial evidence on office meetings using an first study of additional than 9,000 workers connected to matched employer–employee administrative data from Norway. We display that meetings are the two average and costly, consuming an average of 12 percent of activity hours and 14 percent of resolute pay bills. Planning, issue solving, data sharing, and project coordination document for the bulk of gathering activity. High-paying and high-revenue firms dedicate additional resources to meetings notwithstanding facing a substantially higher chance disbursal of employee time. Meeting frequence and power are positively connected to employee pay growth. Workers in meeting-intensive firms study greater on-the-job learning, and interactions alongside additional elder colleagues are connected alongside stronger pay growth, suggesting that cognition transfer inside firms is an crucial mechanism. Meetings are the broccoli of activity – extensively disliked, but likely fine for us anyway.