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The writer is author of ‘Think Big’, an associate professor at the London School of Economics and founding director of The Inclusion Initiative.
When different generations of colleagues get together to discuss ideas and make decisions, there is usually no shortage of potential conflict.
But there is one thing Gen Z, millennials, Gen Xers and boomers agree on: that meetings themselves are often unproductive, unenjoyable and take up too much time.
In Research my colleague Daniel Jolles and I did for the Inclusion Initiative at the London School of Economics, we asked more than 3,400 professional workers about their experiences of meetings. They found 35 per cent of meetings were unproductive — a judgment that was consistent across age groups.
