Long suffering British employees will sit through a mind numbing 9,776 meetings in their working lifetime – with over half of them being deemed as completely pointless, research from Deliveroo for Business has revealed.

New research of the nation’s office workers has discovered the average Brit reckons 51 percent of the meetings they attend every week are utterly useless.

So much so that a staggering one in ten of the employees who took part in the study admitted to having nodded off during a meeting at some point in their life.

And in a bid to get through the tedium, the survey also revealed we will munch through 10,753 sandwiches, 19,552 chocolate biscuits and drink 15,642 cups of tea during our lifetime of meetings, the poll found.

In fact, 85 percent of those polled said they are much more likely to be enthusiastic about a meeting if food and drink is laid on.

The poll of 2,000 full time employees found a quarter of adults dread one to one sessions with their boss about their progress, 26 percent hate awkward catch-up lunches with clients and 17 percent said they loathe annual general meetings.