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You must trek into the centre of a regional city for a meeting because… it improves productivity. Honestly, I find this a spurious argument.

Firstly because our organisation covers a vast geographic area, and yet daily I collaborate successfully with teams based at sites across four large counties.

Secondly because the travel time required to reach that city centre office means I’m not being productive doing actual work.

Thirdly because you have a £12K Surface Hub sitting in the corner of nearly every significant meeting room across the organisation, which enables us to join meetings as if we were there.

And lastly — dare I say it — most meetings are not actually productive, and remove people from their productive work.