$130M
lost per enterprise per year
to bad meetings
26 days
wasted per person, per year.
The equivalent of a full working month.
87%
of people dread their meetings
before they begin
58%
of meetings are seen
as unnecessary
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RESEARCH JUNE 2026The Billion
The Billion
Dollar Brain
Drain
New research reveals that bad meetings are costing enterprise businesses over $130 million a year in wasted time, tech failures, and avoidable downstream work. Every business has the opportunity to reclaim that cost, and transform productivity and wellbeing across the workforce. Here's how.
This is the true cost of a bad meeting.
In a world of distributed teams, async schedules, and organizational complexity, the meeting has become the connective tissue of professional life. What happens, and what fails, inside them has never mattered more. And yet most organizations run meetings as though one format can do everything. The same defaults applied to every purpose, every room, every team. Our research shows how badly that assumption costs us.
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Meeting debt is an organizational liability that has been accumulating for years amongst businesses that have never stopped to consider what it is costing them
THE COST OF A BAD MEETING
JABRA GLOBAL RESEARCH 2026
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$130 million. Per enterprise. Per year. Most of it preventable.
The majority of this cost doesn't come from poor strategy or calendar mismanagement. It comes from technology that fails at the moment it matters most, and the cascade of workarounds, follow-ups, and disengagement it creates every single day.
