A lot has been written over the past decade about the many problems with meetings in the workplace—they keep people from completing their actual work, kill creativity, and force people to work late at night simply to have the opportunity to work uninterrupted. Meetings also increase the likelihood of people committing errors in their work.
And yet, despite all of the data and a wave of new collaboration and communication tools, little has changed in the last 10 years. But now, more than ever, companies have the collaborative tools needed to move away from a meetings-for-meeting-sake culture and embrace the no-meeting way.