Three in four respondents (75%) say they stop paying full attention during virtual meetings either every time or often, while just 8% say they never lose focus. Virtual meetings have made those distractions more visible, but they did not create the behaviour." Only 22% say they do nothing else during virtual meetings. While online meetings remain an essential way to connect distributed teams, people2people says employers should reconsider using meetings as the default response to every update, question or decision. "Virtual meetings are not inherently ineffective, but unfocused meetings are expensive," says Wijayasinghe.