Year of the Early Riser
Friday, February 02, 2007
I'm only back a short time but already I'm noticing a huge increase in the number of early morning meetings in this town. I've had 2 in the last 2 weeks, and have just signed up to another one next week at 7.30am!!
I don't mind at all - am good early or late - just don't expect me to do early and late in the same day! But oh how we have changed in Ireland. When I returned to this country from Australia in 2001, I remember the reaction when I innocently suggested an 8 o'clock meeting. Silence in the open plan office. Phones stopped ringing. Conversations stopped. Tumbleweed blew through the office. It just wasn't done to have early morning meetings back then. Or maybe it just wasn't done in the bank that I worked in?
So what do you reckon? Has our working culture changed in Ireland to embrace breakfast meetings? Or has small business always been like that and big business not?
Labels: business culture ireland