What’s the cost of bad meetings?

Fresh research from Jabra puts a number on it. They surveyed 2,671 knowledge workers across seven markets to uncover the hidden cost of dysfunctional meeting culture – and found that bad meetings come at a significant cost to organisations.

The report calls it Meeting Debt: the accumulated cost of wasted time, technology failures, unclear outcomes and the additional work that follows.

Inside, you’ll find:

✓ How much time we spend in meetings – and how much of it is wasted
✓ Why 87% of workers dread meetings
✓ The impact of technology failures on hybrid meetings
✓ What happens when meetings lack clear outcomes
✓ The hidden cost of follow-up work and additional meetings
✓ Why Meeting Debt exceeds $130 million annually for a typical enterprise
✓ How to redesign meetings for better outcomes

Source: Jabra Research Institute, The Cost of Bad Meetings, 2026.

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