{"id":16858,"date":"2021-02-12T11:30:43","date_gmt":"2021-02-12T11:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"\/gb\/en\/blog\/?p=16858"},"modified":"2021-02-16T08:28:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T08:28:41","slug":"what-could-the-future-of-meetings-look-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/gb\/en\/blog\/what-could-the-future-of-meetings-look-like\/","title":{"rendered":"What Could the Future of Meetings Look Like?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The business meeting<\/a> as we know it has an expiry date. In recent years, in person, prescheduled, and time-boxed meetings have grown a reputation for being a time-costly and often unproductive convention. The subject of great frustration for employees and arguably a great waste of resources for employers, unnecessary or badly organised meetings are said to cost UK businesses more than \u00a3191B a year. The way we work is clearly changing, and traditional time-draining meetings are coming into question.<\/p>\n

One solution is to replace many of our conventional meetings with contextual alternatives. Contextual meetings take place within the digital collaboration space a team uses. Instead of moving to a physical office<\/a> (something many of us haven\u2019t done in a while now) employees hold these meetings where they\u2019re already working.<\/p>\n

As work culture and technology continue to mature, there may be less space for conventional meetings. They\u2019re inflexible, resource-intensive, and don\u2019t complement the way many contemporary organisations operate. But the disruption of conventional meetings is just the start. Many experts predict that workplaces of the future will seem entirely alien to contemporary workers.<\/p>\n

Technologies, ideas, and philosophies that don\u2019t necessarily exist yet will guide the development of both the work we do and the spaces in which we do it. But that doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t identify trends and make predictions.<\/p>\n

Personal assistants for everyone <\/strong><\/h2>\n

According to productivity expert Cal Newport, people have forgotten how to work in long, uninterrupted, cognitively demanding stretches of deep concentration, which he calls deep work. Instead, we fill our days with easy, administrative tasks he categorises as shallow work. Newport believes that AI holds the answer to combating the proliferation of productivity-sapping shallow work. He claims that digital assistants will shoulder most of these menial tasks, leaving us free to concentrate on cognitively demanding work.<\/p>\n

\u201c[I]t\u2019s gonna be like you have your own presidential Chief of Staff,\u201d Newport told Dropbox. \u201cEveryone has their own agent, and the agents talk to each other. So, when you come in, it can say, \u2018I\u2019m talking to other people\u2019s AI on your behalf.\u2019 And Newport\u2019s prediction might become reality sooner than you think. \u201cThe technology is here,\u201d explained Michele Pini, Chief Technology Officer at AI company iGenius, \u201cbut there are two things separating us from an AI-augmented future: AI training and human trust.\u201d<\/p>\n\t\t