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Better Meetings Are Possible. Here's How

More meetings is not the solution. Here's how to collaborate better at work.
Source: Chelsea Conrad

Meetings are probably the biggest punching bag and punchline in the world of office jobs. Scads of articles have been written about their overpreponderance and ineffectiveness. But what happens when offices across the world shut down and millions of employees disperse to work from home? For many people in 2020, the answer was even more meetings and worse ones, riddled with new distractions and technical hurdles.

Let's resolve to meet better in 2021.

These tips were compiled by NPR staffers in an effort to make our lives better while working from home. Now we're sharing them with you.

Meeting is never the goal.

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