At least they should be. Companies that are serious about effective teams find that meetings become the setting for much of their most important work. Resistance may be useless. If the future reflects the past, most of our peak experiences as workers will take place in groups. Most people have experienced the rare meeting with a real breakthrough.
People listen to and understand one another.
They embrace concepts from outside their own comfort zones. Progress towards a common vision energizes the room and great decisions happen. That kind of meeting experience will become common when you put the same quality of work into meetings as you put into your product or service. Work quality, not quantity , is the key. Engineer meetings to channel rather than inhibit natural social inclinations.