50.2% take no meeting notes, Japan Cloud Industry Association finds

The survey paints a picture of meeting documentation that is often informal or absent. Just 16.2% of respondents write formal minutes every time, while 23.2% keep only simple notes and 42.7% do nothing specific. The most common recording method is no record at all, cited by 50.2%, followed by manual recording on PC or paper at 32.4%. This suggests that even when some record is kept, it tends to rely on human effort rather than dedicated tools.

Separately, the survey looked at adoption of transcription and summarization tools. Only 17.0% use such tools, yet 73.2% of those users report that minute-taking became less burdensome. That gap between reported benefit and low uptake may point to barriers beyond effectiveness, though the survey does not specify what those barriers are.