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Meetings, meetings everywhere...

Meetings are the bane of many an office worker's life, so why are we having more of them? Plus tips on how to make meetings more efficient.

It's not unusual for office workers to complain about the number of meetings they have to attend, but are they a distraction from real work, as some claim? And why are we having more meetings than ever?

It's a question researchers at the University of Malmo in Sweden tried to answer. Patrik Hall, the university's professor of political science, tells us it has to do with the growing number of large organisations. The 主播大秀's former Indonesia correspondent Rebecca Henschke tells us about meeting culture in that country, and Joseph Allen, professor of industrial and organisational psychology at the University of Utah, gives advice on how to make meetings more efficient.

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Fri 29 Nov 2019 13:32GMT

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