Nudging Attention to Workplace Meeting Goals: A Large-Scale, Preregistered Field Experiment

Researchers Lev Tankelevitch et al. conducted a large-scale field experiment at a global tech company. They tested a pre-meeting goal-reflection nudge on 361 employees across 7,196 meetings. While the primary intervention didn't significantly boost effectiveness, a key finding emerged: the post-meeting surveys themselves acted as an unintended intervention, improving participants' awareness and behavior. This highlights the challenge of designing effective, integrated support for meeting intentionality within existing workflows.