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Everyone Hates Meetings, So Why Do They Keep Multiplying? RTO Is One Culprit

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18.02.2026

Everyone Hates Meetings, So Why Do They Keep Multiplying? RTO is One Culprit

Studies show some employees are spending more than 10 hours per week in meetings.

BY BRUCE CRUMLEY @BRUCEC_INC

One sentiment shared by most workplace members — from CEOs down to recent entry-level hires — is disliking meetings, which are often considered as fruitless as they are relentless interruptions of productive work. But despite that common disdain, data shows the number of those business huddles continues to multiply, in many cases as a direct result of spreading reinforced return to office mandates (RTO).

Not illogically, one of the downsides of post-pandemic remote work permissions was an increase in the........

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