Have you ever fallen asleep during a meeting at work?

Meetings, meetings, and more meetings. And then meetings about meetings. Followed by even more meetings.

The modern workplace is awashwithmeetings,andlongsuffering British employees will sit through a mind-numbing 9,776 during their working lifetimes – with more than half deemed as completely pointless, research from Deliveroo for Business has revealed.

This study of the nation’s officeworkersdiscoveredthatthe averageBritreckons51percent ofthemeetingstheyattendevery week are utterly useless.

What’s more, one in 10 of those employees who took part in the study admitted to having nodded off during a meeting at some point in their life.

The poll of 2,000 full-time employees also found that we will munch our way through 10,753sandwiches,19,552chocolate biscuits and drink 15,642 cups of tea during our lifetime of meetings – all in a bid to get through the tedium.

Of those polled, 17 per cent claimed they had completely clammed up in a meeting, 26 per cent had not listened to one word that was said, and 27 per cent spent the duration of the meeting thinking about what theyweregoingtohavefortheir dinner that night.

Almost one in 10 (eight per cent) pass the time by flirting with colleagues over the meeting table, while 20 per cent admit they text their other half.

Four in 10 said they like it when their diary is packed full ofmeetingsasitgetsthemoutof doingany‘proper’work.Butsix in 10 moaned that meetings just createmoreunnecessarywork.

“Meetings can be dull and traditionally the food and drink offered is pretty lacklustre,consistingofdrearybiscuits thrownonaplateandlukewarm tea from an old office urn,” says Juan Diego Farah, Global Head of Deliveroo for Business .

“Somemeetingsdragonand breaking up proceedings with breaksforhigh-qualityfoodand drink can really boost people’s energy levels and their enthusiasm.

“Deliveroo for Business was set up so office workers and businesses can have the same choice and access to great food at work as they do at home on Deliveroo.”

Morethanaquarterofworkers say they are embarrassed when visitors come to their office for meetings as their hospitality is so poor – confessing to barely being able to scrape together tea and biscuits.