If your experience is similar to that of more than three-quarters (75.9%) of the UK population, you are finding them a waste of time – and one in three people (34.4%) admit than they excuse themselves from online meetings that they get bored of.

This rather disparaging view of virtual meetings emerged from a new study by independent job board CV-Library in which 2,000 working professionals were surveyed. The study also found that men (81.3%) were most likely to see them as a waste of time and also were more likely to abandon an online altogether (40.7% of men vs 26.8% of women).

Alongside this, a staggering 96.3% of UK workers currently have up to four virtual meetings a day, with each of these lasting around an hour. Worse still, 13.9% said they spend around 6.5 hours in virtual meetings every day.

However, over half of respondents (55.1%) say their most productive meetings are under 30 minutes long. 

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