You take minutes and waste hours
MOST workers view the prospect of a two-hour meeting with the same enthusiasm as Prometheus awaited the daily arrival of the eagle, sent by the gods to peck at his liver. Meetings have been a form of torture for office staff for as long as they have pushed pencils and bashed keyboards.
This article appeared in the Business section of the print edition under the headline “Taking minutes, wasting hours”
From the June 30th 2018 edition
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