{"id":78506,"date":"2022-01-24T11:01:14","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=78506"},"modified":"2022-01-24T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T16:01:25","slug":"the-surprising-impact-of-meeting-free-days-laker-pereira-budhwar-malik","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2022\/01\/24\/the-surprising-impact-of-meeting-free-days-laker-pereira-budhwar-malik\/","title":{"rendered":"The Surprising Impact of Meeting-Free Days [Laker, Pereira, Budhwar, &#038; Malik]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sloanreview.mit.edu\/article\/the-surprising-impact-of-meeting-free-days\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>The Surprising Impact of Meeting-Free Days<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from sloanreview.mit.edu by Ben Laker, Vijay Pereira, Pawan Budhwar, and Ashish Malik<br \/>\n<em>Many organizations are implementing no-meeting days, but finding the optimal weekly balance requires deliberation.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Though building trust and achieving team cohesion rely on frequent, quality interactions, meetings are no longer the best way to accomplish this. As a result, many organizations&#8230;are taking a stand by adopting no-meeting days, during which people operate at their own rhythms and collaborate with others at a pace and on a schedule that is convenient, not forced.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nThe subsequent impact of introducing meeting-free days was profound, as outlined in the table below. When one no-meeting day per week was introduced, autonomy, communication, engagement, and satisfaction all improved, resulting in decreased micromanagement and stress, which caused productivity to rise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Surprising Impact of Meeting-Free Days &#8212; from sloanreview.mit.edu by Ben Laker, Vijay Pereira, Pawan Budhwar, and Ashish Malik Many organizations are implementing no-meeting days, but finding the optimal weekly balance requires deliberation. Excerpt: Though building trust and achieving team cohesion rely on frequent, quality interactions, meetings are no longer the best way to accomplish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[387,127,433,112,419,431,279,217,321,49,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-collaboration","category-communications","category-corporate-business-world","category-ideas-teaching","category-organizational-change","category-participation","category-research","category-united-states","category-web-based-collaboration","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78507,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78506\/revisions\/78507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}