How many hours do you work, and how many hours are spent in meetings?

[TheGoodHuman]

I've recently started a new job. I cannot believe how many meetings I am required to attend. I work 37 hours and 20 have been spent in meetings this week. I need to get into a flow state to do some of my rather big tasks and I just can't get anything done!

Yes. I get 'invites' to other meetings but very rarely attend as I don't have the time.

No, as stated I work in a heavily regulated sector and we have to have a lot of external meetings set by those bodies. Internally I also manage a lot of projects and developments so each of those has weekly/daily milestone tracking meetings depending on the status of said project.
We work in a collegiate way and emails miss out the human contact + discussion triggers.
I actually love my job and as I'm ADHD it fits me perfectly, I get to hop from 1 thing to the next whilst someone else picks up the detailed actions. I have heavily curated my work life to get to this point, it suits me and I'm bloody good at my job.

I run my own business - work 25/30 hours a week and never attend a single meeting.

I work around 25 hours a week, zero meetings except maybe twice a year we go out for dinner and talk shop. Every single hour I’m at work is 1:1 with a client though so maybe that counts as meetings? 😄

35 hours and a 15 min Friday huddle

Do you need to be in all of them? It might be that because you’re new you’re being included in more stuff than normal? Once you’re settled in do you get the impression you might be able to decline any of them on account of not being necessary?

What sector @twistyizzy?

Not getting at you, just find it fascinating.

30 hours a week, spend about 2 hours in meetings a week. And every 4 weeks it’s a full day of meetings. Clinical managerial role.

Education at an exam board. Ofqual and DfE regulated so have to report to them whenever anyone sneezes 🙄. It's constant data scrutiny, quality of exams + results plus projects/new products and continual improvement. When something goes wrong it's in the national press so high pressure + stakes.

I work 22.5 hours and this week I have had 8 hours of meetings and spent 4 hours at a training session.

I work 35 hours a week I reckon on average between 3-5 hours of that are spent in meetings.

not really. I’m a manager but Im also a specialist in a fairly niche industry so we hold meetings with other areas of the business to determine the most appropriate and low risk solution for us and our clients, then I advise the client lead on what actions need to be taken - but I don’t need to do it myself; I don’t have the existing relationship with the client, nor the overall view on that particular account.

35 a week and only 1 hour average of meetings. (Weekly catch up and a 121 once a month)