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The Productivity Deficit Hidden Inside Every Meeting
Episode 9 of The Productivity Podcast takes on the quietest productivity killer in modern knowledge work: meeting recovery time. Lucas walks through a 2025 Cornell study that tracked 1,200 office workers across industries and found that the average uninterrupted focus block lasts just 47 minutes before a meeting breaks it. Worse, workers reported losing 23 minutes of productive time after each meeting just to regain cognitive momentum. Luna pushes back on the obvious fix—fewer meetings—and instead the episode explores a less intuitive solution: meeting spacing. The hosts examine how one…
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