A company decided to pass on a new rule: no more meetings before noon, though some were skeptical, it worked out: ‘Turns out a lot of “quick syncs” existed because they were easy to schedule, not because they were needed.’ – FAIL Blog

That is just an example, as it is the morning meetings in the story below. They are hard proof of the waste that some meetings are. They aren’t really necessary, but nobody wants to be the one eliminating them. Everything is scheduled around meetings that don’t provide any real value to the company or the workspace. So why do we have them? Why wouldn’t we eliminate them?