Welcome to Work Shift

Welcome to Work Shift, Bloomberg’s new home for workplace and management coverage. Our team will dive into the future of work, using exclusive data and expert insights to uncover and explain the latest trends. Our job is to help futureproof your career and prepare your organization for what’s sure to be a bumpy road ahead.

This is our first weekly newsletter, and today comes to you from Matthew Boyle, a reporter on the team. We want to hear from you, so send your feedback and ideas to Matt at mboyle20@bloomberg.net. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here.

Today’s topic: Meetings. You probably spend your days rushing from one to the next, in person or over Zoom, often wondering why you’re even in some of them. But you click “yes” to just about all of them, because, well, someone thought you should be there, and you wouldn’t want to upset them, or have colleagues think you’re shirking. Just look at the guys in the old-school photo below: I’m sure a few of them were thinking, “Wait, why am I here again?”