Online conferences are getting more and more, longer and longer and worse?

Just a feeling of many employees? No, unfortunately it's reality! This is a development that has taken place in recent years. It started before the pandemic, but has been greatly intensified by the pandemic.

Podcast on the topic "SAP does "Focus Friday" without conferences": a model for the future?" by Stefan Eich, May 20, 2022, in conversation with Jutta Rump, Director of the Institute for Employment and Employability in Ludwigshafen

At the moment, it feels like you can no longer escape the meeting madness. One meeting follows the next. A workshop here, a meeting there - modern video conferencing software lowers the threshold for brief team discussions thanks to the simplicity of connecting the team online in a matter of seconds with just a few clicks of the mouse. The usefulness of such meetings is sometimes no longer questioned at all, which used to be different. As a result, some employees are no longer able to get on with their day-to-day tasks because they don't have enough time for all the meetings and discussions. 

The term "Zoom fatigue" describes this overloaded meeting culture, coupled with a loss of productivity. Employee motivation also decreases. "Exchange is always good - but at the end of the day, the working day must not only consist of exchange, because the operational day-to-day business must also be handled." (Jutta Rump)

Focus Friday was created by SAP in order to be able to carry out this day-to-day operational business without disruptive meetings. Jutta Rump certainly sees potential in this arrangement, but in today's world of fast-paced communication, she calls for a structured meeting process with regulated time slots and binding rules.   

Linkando provides precisely this structure and the necessary rules, such as a binding meeting schedule, regulated speaker management and a clear allocation of roles. The meeting management software gets to the root of the problem of inefficient meeting culture, while organizational measures such as Focus Friday merely help to alleviate the symptoms.