2022 Work Trend Index: Annual Report While meetings are up overall, they Key Takeaway are getting shorter and more ad hoc. As employees find digital equivalents of Teams need to create the “drive by” or “hallway conversation”, unscheduled, ad-hoc calls have risen 8% in new norms around the last two years and now make up 64% of all Teams meetings. And meetings under flexible work to reduce 15 minutes now make up a majority of all meetings (60 percent) and are increasing time spent in meetings more than any other meeting length (39 and empower people to percent between February 2021 and 2022). to shift as much work as you can to be asynchronous and get really intentional hit the off switch. This The data also shows the shift to about the use of the synchronous time you asynchronous work as part of the new normal. have together,” says Jaime Teevan, Microsoft’s should not be a solo Monthly use of meeting recordings that allow Chief Scientist. people to catch up on meetings, training, and effort, but a team-led town halls on demand has more than doubled Taken altogether, the data indicates that since March 20204. And new patterns—like employees are doing what they can to make movement to establish the “triple peak day”— are emerging as some flexible work their own but making flexible people leave the 9 to 5 behind to do what work sustainable long-term will require more sustainable hybrid works for them. new team norms to guard against being work practices. “Because everyone is working at different “always on.” times and in different places, it’s important 4 Monthly usage of Microsoft’s Stream platform as a way for employees to work asynchronously has more than doubled between March 2020 and February 2022.