Ones that start late are not only inconvenient and impolite, but they are also much less effective than meetings that start on time, according to research. A colleague leaned over and whispered about the start time of any meetings on time after ten minutes of listening to our boss talk about the turning radius of his new riding mower. Only three – yes, three – of the approximately 700 meetings started on time.
That means that three sessions were the only ones that were as productive as they could have been. Meetings that start late aren’t merely a loss of time and a source of annoyance, according to a 2018 study published in the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
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