The Idea Blog

“Displaced largely by email,” says Jaren Sandberg in his “Cubicle Culture” column in the June 19 Wall Street Journal, “meetings have dropped in number of the years.” According to a recent study reported in the paper, “people averaged 47% of their day in scheduled meetings before the days ubiquitous email. In her recent study, only 14% of information workers were in meetings.”

Makes me feel a lot better about email. Now let’s work on making those meetings more productive.