Meeting expectations

Business Daily

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4.4 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 19 April 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Every day 55 million meetings take place in the United States. But just how effective are they at actually getting stuff done? British comedian David Mitchell has been investigating how the meeting evolved and the "meeting-isation" of society.

(Picture: a man boring colleagues during a meeting. Credit: Getty Images.)

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0:00.0	From the BBC World Service.
0:01.9	He said, he was hecker.
0:03.0	So many millions of dollars.
0:04.2	It's got to be North Korea.
0:05.2	How in the world did this happen?
0:06.7	The Lazarus Heist.
0:08.0	Episode 1 is available now.
0:11.2	Hello and welcome to Business Daily from the BBC.
0:15.2	I'm Manuela Saragossa.
0:16.6	In this edition, please, not another meeting.
0:20.0	People talk so much about spending all day at work in meetings.
0:23.7	It's meeting after meeting after meeting.
0:25.4	The meeting ran on.
0:26.4	Oh, I've got another meeting.
0:27.8	Thursday is all meetings.
0:29.4	What are these meetings for?
0:31.1	We meet to discuss doing things,
0:32.9	but no one ever refers to the time spent then doing the things the meetings have decided.
0:37.9	The British comedian David Mitchell on the meetingization of society.
0:42.7	That's coming up here in Business Daily from the BBC.
0:48.1	Every day, 55 million meetings take place in the United States.
0:53.1	That was the figure an academic came up with in a
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