# Fixing meetings: A research-backed playbook

> This playbook is the antidote to fixing meetings. Learn how to lead fewer, more meaningful meetings.

Source: https://asana.com/resources/fixing-meetings-playbook

## Fixing meetings: A research-backed playbook

#### See the full report
- [Download the report](https://assets.asana.biz/m/4b322c2af5a07f85/original/pdf-WIL-fixing-meetings.pdf)
- [Download the report](https://assets.asana.biz/m/4b322c2af5a07f85/original/pdf-WIL-fixing-meetings.pdf)Meetings are a huge time sink for organizations. Even with technology built to manage calendars and work more efficiently, meeting bloat has only gotten worse. This playbook—jam-packed with research that’s been featured in publications like WIRED, Forbes, and the Wall Street Journal—is an antidote. 

You’ll learn:
- How to lead wide-scale meeting audits and resets (so you can have fewer, more meaningful meetings) 
- How The Work Innovation Lab, a think tank by Asana, launched an experiment to create a “Meeting Doomsday,” which eliminated low-value meetings and improved all meetings—even for people who didn’t participate in the experiments 
- How to use this research and perform your own “Meeting Doomsday” to reduce meeting bloat in your organization

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The Work Innovation Lab

- [The State of AI at Work](/resources/state-of-ai-work)

The Work Innovation Lab

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The Work Innovation Lab

#### Researchers

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- [AI Maturity Assessment](/resources/ai-maturity-assessment)

The Work Innovation Lab

- [2025 State of AI at Work: Germany](/resources/2025-state-of-ai-at-work-germany)

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Germany is facing an AI paradox. While 67% of knowledge workers now use AI weekly—up from 56% last year—just 18% of organizations have successfully scaled AI across the business.T ...

- [Fixing meetings: A research-backed playbook](/resources/fixing-meetings-playbook)

The Work Innovation Lab

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- [Head of The Work Innovation Lab](/author/rebecca-hinds)

Meetings are a huge time sink for organizations. Even with technology built to manage calendars and work more efficiently, meeting bloat has only gotten worse. This playbook—jam-p ...