14th May 2019, LONDON – Nine out of ten (92%) of UK workers are irritated by meetings at work, with 68% saying that pointless meetings create a negative experience, according to the research from workplace utilisation specialists Cloudbooking.
The Employee Evolution report, which examines the attitudes of 1,000 UK employees towards the workplace, found that 41% say not being able to get a meeting room creates a negative workplace experience. Whereas other bugbears when it comes to meetings at work included:
- Colleagues who have not prepared for the meeting (32%)
- Meetings that run on too long (27%)
- Colleagues turning up late ( 21%)
- Lack of meeting agenda (20%)
- People distracted by their laptops or phones (16%)
- Men are twice as likely to get annoyed about lack of meeting room booking procedures than women
“Despite obvious frustrations, meetings are here to stay. However, the technology exists today to make organising and running them a pain-free and almost invisible process,” explains Gerry Brennan, CEO of Cloudbooking. “Meeting room solutions are now as slick as ordering an Uber, and should operate intuitively in the background helping to create a positive experience while allowing employees to focus on the job at hand.”
The Employee Experience – The Next Stage of Evolution report is available in full here.
About Cloudbooking
Cloudbooking is the UK’s fastest growing workspace management specialists, with hundreds of thousands of bookers worldwide, across some of the world’s largest companies, including Viacom, Shop Direct, Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council, Experian, Airbus and Ogilvy. Cloudbooking provides a seamless booking solution that is agile, intuitive, intelligent and proactive; enabling people to work more effectively and businesses to use their work space more efficiently. Cloudbooking helps organisations manage rooms, desks, visitors, hospitality, pool cars, resources and more; all from one simple, sophisticated and easy to use solution.
For further information visit: www.cloudbooking.com
92% of UK workers are irritated by meetings at work, with 68% saying that pointless meetings create a negative experience, according to the research from workplace utilisation specialists Cloudbooking.
The Employee Evolution report, which examines the attitudes of 1,000 UK employees towards the workplace, found that 41% say not being able to get a meeting room creates a negative workplace experience. Common bugbears include colleagues arriving unprepared (32%), meetings running on for too long (27%), and colleagues turning up late (21%).
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