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Your support makes all the difference.The typical British manager spends almost 20 years in meetings during his or her career, a survey showed today. More than a quarter of that time is spent travelling to and from meetings, yet many of them could have been avoided by a telephone call, fax or letter.
The survey of 500 business managers, commissioned by BT, found they attended six meetings a week on average. A quarter of those interviewed said at least one meeting a week turned out to be pointless or unproductive.
The survey identified a widespread view of meetings as a status symbol - the more someone goes to, the more important they are. More than a third of managers complained that their company had a "meetings culture", in which everything has to be discussed at a meeting.
Some claimed that colleagues fix meetings at the end of the day to get away early, or at a client's office in the morning to get a lie-in.
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