Improbable research  Bored meetings  First on the agenda: are
meetings too long?  Do you believe, as someone somewhere perhaps
does, that meetings, meetings, meetings, followed by more
meetings are altogether a good thing? If so, Alexandra Luong and
Steven G Rogelberg think you should think again. In a newly
published study, they say: "We propose that despite the fact
that meetings may help to achieve work-related goals, having too
many meetings and spending too much time in meetings per day may
have negative effects on the individual."  Luong is an assistant
professor of industrial and organisational psychology at the
University of Minnesota, Duluth. Rogelberg is an associate
professor of psychology at the University of North Carolina at
Charlotte. Their report appears in the journal Group Dynamics:
Theory, Research and Practice.  It begins with a somewhat brief
recitation of the history of important research discoveries
about meetings. Here is a capsule version of their tale.
Discovery: The majority of a m