Results
Meeting characteristics
The
number of meeting participants ranged from 3 to 200 people (M =
18.99, SD = 27.24). Meetings lasted from 15 to 480 minutes
(M = 93.44, SD = 68.16). Per week, students attended about
3 meetings (M = 3.17; SD = 2.90). Students reported using
the following communication tools: ZOOM (41.58 %), Microsoft Teams
(21.86 %), Google Meet (16.85 %), BigBlueButton (13.62 %), Cisco
Webex Meeting (2.87 %), Skype (0.72 %), GoToMeeting (0.36 %), and
TeamViewer (0.36 %; 1.79 % other tools).
Meeting lateness and temporal design
characteristics
Only 73 (26.16 %) meetings started late which was significantly lower
than the expected 40 % (p < .001). Therefore,
Hypothesis 1 could not be supported.
Delays were between 1 and 30 minutes long (M = 9.25, SD =
5.48) and were addressed in 24 of 73 meetings (32.87 %). As reasons for
the delay, 60 participants (82.19 %) named the absence of individual
persons. Delays were also caused by technical reasons (19.18 %) or a
preliminary discussion (19.18 %), missing materials (1.37 %) and other
reasons (e.g., misunderstandings; 6.85 %). Meetings were terminated at
the scheduled time in 133 cases (47.67 %; before the scheduled time:
7.16 %; later: 19 %). 73 people (26.16 %) stated that there was no
predetermined end. Participants indicated that they classify a meeting
as late if it starts between zero and 180 minutes after the scheduled
time (M = 11.82, SD = 12.61). The country-specific
characteristic values are shown in Table 1.
Table 1