80% of UK employees are wasting as much as seven weeks a year in pointless meetings. Conducted among 1,000 UK employees, a recent study by One Pulse and Owl Labs revealed that UK companies fail to meet the demands of modern day remote workforces, with 53% of workers not feeling that their companies do enough to meet their needs.
Every person who’s ever worked remotely, even for a day, will relate to this – virtual meetings are nigh-on impossible to execute without a glitch of sorts. Be it spotty signal, poor technology, or lack of purpose and organisation on either or both sides, there’s always something to throw a spanner in the works. So much for agile working and flexibility! Are companies failing to practice what they preach?
So where does this rate in a country consumed by an ever-expanding gig economy? Should companies rethink their approach to flexible working? Max Makeev, CEO of Owl Labs, said: “In an era of remote and flexible work the need for an effective working process, for those in and out of the office, is crucial. However, UK companies are so far failing to meet the needs of the modern workplace.”