In February 2025, the market research firm bilendi surveyed 1,040 employees in Germany for the HR software company HR Works. On average, they had 4.4 meetings a week and considered 2.9 of them unnecessary. They spent 4.7 hours a week in meetings and considered 3.2 of those hours wasted. 48 percent said that meetings take too long. 31 percent said that such meetings produce no concrete decisions.