The Ugly Truth About Meetings

The Ugly Truth About Meetings Meetings. Does anyone like them? We never want to be part of them, but whats the ugly truth about them? They are meant to be the engine of productivity in the workplace, but they are anything but. Find out more in the infographic below, created by Fuze. Takeaways: Over 15% of an organisations time is spent in meetings and this percentage has increased every year since 2008. Executives consider more than 67% of meetings to be failures. 49% of employees admit doing other, unrelated work during meetings. In the US alone, over 25 million meetings take place every day thats a lot of talking! 80% of messages  we receive is from body language. RELATED: How to Not Suck at Meetings