Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Maura Thomas helps busy people achieve more of what’s most important. A recent study conducted by Microsoft put some disappointing ...

Wait... what? Shorter, more productive meetings? Is that even possible? We’ve all been stuck in those endless meetings—the kind where you’re just planning the ...

Large companies could save as much as $100 million a year by holding fewer unnecessary meetings and cutting down on their invite lists, according to a recent study. A common refrain among workers who ...

Zach began writing for CNET in November, 2021 after writing for a broadcast news station in his hometown, Cincinnati, for five years. You can usually find him reading and drinking coffee or watching a ...

There needs to be cultural permission for people to say no to meetings. In the long term, giving culture permission for people to decline meetings profoundly affects the team’s productivity, culture ...

Meetings took over Bob Jordan’s calendar. Now the Southwest Airlines CEO is doing something about it. He blocks his calendar three afternoons a week to escape the back-to-back meetings that keep him ...

It was the announcement heard round the internet: Shopify was doing away with meetings. In a January memo, the e-commerce platform called it "useful subtraction," a way to free up time to allow people ...