This final note comes with this personal observation: I once had a boss in the Navy who only held meetings standing up — helped keep ’em short and on target, he said.

That wasn’t a bad way to go, because a report from Atlassian had this to say about the average workplace meeting attendee:

• 39 percent slept during meetings.

• 45 percent felt overwhelmed by the number of meetings they have to go to.

• 73 percent said they did other work during those meetings.