# Anthropic Employees Spend 20% More Time in Meetings Over One Year By Simon Yoon Canonical URL: https://www.tokenpost.com/news/technology/35194 Published: 2026-10-20T01:45:34.000Z Updated: 2026-10-20T01:45:34.000Z Section: Technology > Technical individual contributors saw a 16% increase, while 20% of April 2026 survey respondents described a shift toward managing Claude agents. The median Anthropic employee's meeting time climbed 20% over the past year, while the company's growing use of Claude agents changed how some staff performed their jobs. Calendar records show a 16% increase for technical individual contributors, employees who work in technical roles without managing a team. Anthropic's expansion and a shift toward nontechnical jobs with more meetings contributed to the broader increase. The data do not establish that using agents led to more meetings. In an April 2026 survey with an open-ended question, 20% of respondents described moving from doing tasks themselves toward managing Claude agents. That is a share of survey respondents, not a share of Anthropic's entire workforce or a measure of time spent on oversight. Work related to directing agents also occupied a larger portion of interactive Claude sessions. For the average employee, its share rose from 10% in fall 2025 to 22% in spring 2026. The category covers preparing instructions, using one agent to check another's output and monitoring agent workflows. The estimate came from an automated review of 2,000 one-line chat summaries. Anthropic's [interactive Claude sessions]() included long pauses: Agents waited for a person to respond during about 80% of the sessions' elapsed time. The figure measures waiting within back-and-forth interactions. It does not mean staff devoted 80% of their work hours to supervising Claude. Output volume added another demand. For nontechnical groups, reading every response produced in interactive sessions would require more than half a workweek under an estimate that assumes a pace of 250 words per minute and 0.75 words per token. The calculation concerns text volume, not time employees actually spent reading. An engineer interviewed about the changes likened the experience to “an army of Claudes, with every one asking for my attention.” The assessment combined employment, AI-use, output, survey, communication, calendar and hiring data with 17 employee interviews. Its findings describe one company where AI tools are woven into daily work. They do not show whether U.S. workplaces generally face the same pattern. The separate contributions of company growth and changing job mix to meeting time were not quantified. ## Links in this article - [interactive Claude sessions](https://www.tokenpost.com/news/business/34631)