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How Useless Meetings Are Burning You Out
Episode 40 of The Burnout Podcast tackles a workplace epidemic that rarely gets the burnout label: useless meetings. Lucas and Luna break down a specific recent survey of 1,000 US office workers that found the average professional spends 7.8 hours per week in meetings they consider unnecessary or poorly run — that's nearly a full workday burned every week. They explore the psychological cost of 'meeting recovery time,' the compounding effect of calendar fragmentation, and why even short check-ins can drain your cognitive reserves. They also debate two real-world experiments…
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