Meetings Kill Productivity Instantly
A group of coworkers sit exhausted in a meeting room while one relaxes, showing how meetings often waste time and stall productivity.
Meetings are where work goes to wait. Calendars fill up, agendas get vague, and suddenly the most productive part of the day is… rescheduling. What starts as a quick sync somehow becomes a full production involving five people, three opinions, and zero actual progress.
Modern work culture runs on meetings. Status updates about updates. Conversations about future conversations. And somehow, the more meetings you attend, the less work actually gets done. The real task becomes surviving the meeting without falling asleep—or volunteering for something by accident.
This cartoon captures that universal experience: one person pretending to lead, one person completely checked out, one barely awake, and one silently questioning every life decision that led to this moment. The coffee helps, but not enough. It never is.
The irony is simple—everyone is busy, but nothing is moving.
If it could’ve been an email, it definitely should’ve been.
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