Hate the meetings which could have been an email

How do you guys approach to completing your tasks which are adjusted to be completed in 40 hours (or whatever amount of time is standard in your company) when 25% of the time goes in meetings and calls only?

We start the day with meetings, we end the day with a meeting, and in between there are thousands if not hundreds of "Can we get on a quick call?", "Let's have a meeting to discuss the agendas", "Are you available for a 5 mins meet?", "Can you join in on _____", stand up, sit down, roll over, turn around, blah blah blah (you get the idea)! Most meetings would have been an email. Sadly many don't/can't write! If meetings would have been so important, why would anyone be doing any actual work!

Hey folks! Hope you're all doing well. What this post is: a place to hang around and chat just about anything - without having a specific topic to discuss. Think of it like the watercooler at your office. Look forward to hearing from you all!

What made it worst? The pay, the culture, or your manager?

What are some common stereotypes you've all encountered in Indian corporate culture? I'll go first; the meetings that are never ending (and could have easily been an email).

I strongly believe if companies reduced work hours to 6-7 hours a day it’ll increase in individual’s moral as well as productivity, what do you guys think? Currently my shift hours is 9 hours a day traveling to and from excluded which leads to 12 hours a day, which gets hectic sometimes.

Last two months had been great, I was consistently building a morning routine. Included little fitness too. Happy how my body felt energetic. Until one day, "I didn’t feel like getting up" Two weeks, Schedule is back to groggy mornings, skipped breakfast, put on visible fat Work has got shittier. My day starts with 2 hours of compulsory, back-to-back meetings, followed by more 1-O-1s through the day. The meetings are just crying how things are bad, not working out, employees are not putting efforts, revenue is down, sales is not performing, clients are leaving - 3 hours later, we still haven't got a action plan. What's the use? This wasn’t meant to be a rant. Just that cannot tell people to fuck off. I feel should tell a part of me to fuck off too.