It’s hard to believe, but nobody ever sat me down and told me how to plan or run a meeting. Like most people, it was just something I learned by doing, which means I probably ran a ton of bad meetings ...

Compare top video conferencing tools for 2026, including Zoom, Teams, Google Meet, Webex, Zoho Meeting, and my top pick, GoTo ...

You are probably reading this after getting out of a meeting or on your way to a meeting. As unproductive as some meetings are, perhaps you are reading it in a meeting. There are roughly 55 million ...

In an increasingly remote-first business world, online meetings have become a workday staple at many companies. However, Owl Labs’ State of Hybrid Work report found that 31 percent of workers want ...

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It was the announcement heard round the internet: Shopify was doing away with meetings. In a January memo, the e-commerce platform called it "useful subtraction," a way to free up time to allow people ...

The right desk phone can make or break audio conferences for everyone involved. Check out the best VoIP conference phones for different scenarios in my full buyer’s guide. A good conference phone is ...

Steven Rogelberg, a professor at UNC Charlotte, has spent decades researching workplace meetings and reports that many of them are a waste of time. Why? Because the vast majority... Steven Rogelberg, ...

We’ve all been in a dumb meeting — one that makes you think, “This doesn’t even apply to me,” “I’m learning nothing from this,” or, worst of all, “This meeting could have been an email.” I’m sure ...

When I re-read the title of this piece, I thought to myself: "That sounds like a pretty good description of Hell." But trust me, I actually meant for the title to describe something potentially good.