If Your Meeting Could Be an Email: How Unnecessary Meetings Are Quietly Wasting Your Time

Tip of the Day: If your meeting could be an email, it should be an email.

Too many meetings don’t move work forward—they slow it down. We’ve all spent an hour in a room only to realize the same information could have been shared in a few clear sentences. That kind of inefficiency quietly drains focus, morale, and trust.

This isn’t anti-meeting. Good meetings matter. But unnecessary ones often point to unclear communication or the false idea that attendance equals productivity. Strong leadership values clarity over calendar clutter and asks a simple question first: Is this meeting truly necessary?

These everyday workplace habits are exactly what All Up in Your Bizness calls out—revealing how “normal” practices can make work harder than it needs to be. Your time matters.