So I started a new job 6 months ago in a well-known and very big company. I work hybrid and for the most part I like the job, the company have a good culture and the people are nice so this isn't a deal breaker or anything, but it is the first time I've worked in a company of this size and industry prestige, and I worked in public sector for the first ten years of my career.
What I am finding a bit tiresome, however, is the amount of meetings we have!! They just have meetings about everything all the time, bringing together various different groups of people. A lot of the time we just seem to be repeating the same information, and at the end of the meetings nothing ever seems to be agreed in any concrete way and we just arrange the next meeting where we largely go through it all again. Decisions never seem to get finalised. I find it such a drain on my productivity to be honest, always being interrupted for another meeting which I wouldn't mind, but they very rarely have an outcome! Especially at the moment as we are in a quiet period. It feels a bit like people trying to justify their jobs but I'm sure we could have less people overall if we stopped having so many meetings. My line manager (who is lovely) even has a 1-1 of one hour every week with the people she line manages - that's 5 hours a week. Sometimes I don't have much to tell her from the week before! Like I say, it's a nice enough job but I am a bit exhausted by all these meetings and was wondering if this is normal practice in the big corporate world or if it's just where I am.