In the 90s, during my long corporate tenure, I spent my waking life in meetings. We were fixated on them. We had status meetings, project update meetings, team meetings, executive meetings–you name it. I’ve heard from friends in IT that meetings are not as common as they were back them, especially since you can chat on Slack now or make a quick Skype conference call, but they are far from extinct.

If we had a tool like Microsoft Delve Analytics, a free add-on for Outlook and for Office 365, we would have been more diligent about weeding out some of those meetings. It’s essentially a productivity dashboard that looks at how you spend your time.

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