In fact, the number of meetings people attended every day increased as workplaces went completely remote during the peak of the pandemic, a trend that will likely continue as remote work rises.Īccording to the “Future Workforce Pulse Report” by Upwork, 36.2 million Americans will be working remotely by 2025 - that’s a 90% increase from pre-pandemic levels and 22% of the entire American workforce. The apparent need for multiple people to come together and collaborate, discuss the progress of projects, and overcome obstacles remains the same.

Rather than running from one conference room to the next, people are scrambling for the right Zoom links. While that’s not to say that people didn’t spend a lot of time in meetings before COVID, the medium in which many of those meetings are taking place has changed. Remote work has risen significantly in recent years, and with it so has the number of virtual meetings. This is, to some extent, a result of the dramatic shift in the way we work following the pandemic, a change that happened practically overnight.

The number of virtual meetings people are expected to attend on a daily basis is leaving employees feeling overwhelmed and burnt out. As we continue to navigate the world of remote work, it’s become clear that one of the biggest challenges businesses and employees face is ‘meeting fatigue’.

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