One week after lockdown in 2020, employees held around three meetings per person each day. Accounting for eight weeks after the lockdown, employees held around 13 percent more meetings, with the number of people invited to meetings rising by 14 percent. At the same time, each meeting was approximately 20 percent shorter, which reduced the number of meeting hours overall.
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*Researchers analyzed meetings of 3,1 million people in 16 global cities. Employees represent 21,500 companies in North America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Lockdown dates vary between March 8 and March 25, 2020.
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Harvard Business School. (September 14, 2020). Online meetings per person each day pre and post-COVID lockdown worldwide in 2020, by week [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1234923/pre-and-post-covid-online-meetings/
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Harvard Business School. (2020). Online meetings per person each day pre and post-COVID lockdown worldwide in 2020, by week. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: July 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1234923/pre-and-post-covid-online-meetings/
Harvard Business School. "Online Meetings per Person Each Day Pre and Post-covid Lockdown Worldwide in 2020, by Week." Statista, Statista Inc., 14 Sep 2020, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1234923/pre-and-post-covid-online-meetings/
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Online meetings per person each day pre and post-COVID lockdown worldwide in 2020, by week [Graph], Harvard Business School, September 14, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1234923/pre-and-post-covid-online-meetings/
