58% of all meeting time is considered wasted

Workers average 8 hours a week in meetings — a full working day. But 58% of that time is seen as unnecessary. That's 26 working days lost per person, per year, across every calendar.

75% of meetings experience at least one tech failure

Broken audio. Frozen video. Rooms that won't connect. The cost is 11 minutes per meeting — three full working days per person per year. The invisible broken room has become a chronic operating condition.

42% of workers hit their energy limit within 2 hours

Workers pushed past capacity are 1.7× more likely to generate additional work after the meeting ends — the opposite of what meetings are for.

59% of meetings need a follow-up meeting to fix the first

A bad meeting doesn't end when the room empties. 59% generate additional work to recover from the confusion. Bad meetings breed bad meetings.

2x more likely to need a second meeting if video is abandoned

Giving up on video — one of the most common workarounds — is associated with an almost doubling of the likelihood to need another meeting. Visibility isn't a nice-to-have. It's essential infrastructure for productivity.

50% of online meeting participants are routinely left out

Half of remote participants are forgotten, talked over, or excluded. Women report worse outcomes across every measure. Workers in laptop-only rooms are 40% more likely to feel excluded.

91% of high-dread workers leave without clarity

Meeting dread is not just a feeling, it's a signal. Among those who dread meetings very often, 91% leave with unclear action items and 91% need a follow-up. Among those who never dread, those figures fall to 34% and 28%.

<1 in 3 workers trust AI meeting tools enough to use regularly

75% have tried AI meeting tools. Fewer than 1 in 3 rely on them. AI can accelerate a good meeting system. It cannot repair a broken one. The foundation has to come first.