Microsoft's Personal Productivity Challenge survey received 38,000 responses from over 200 countries. Here are some of the highlights:

• People who work an average of 45 hours a week say they consider 38% of those hours unproductive
• Workers spend 5.6 hours each day in meetings; 69% feel the meetings are unproductive
• 60% say they don't have work life-balance
• Average email messages received per day totaled 49 

What percentage of executives admit to have a messy desk but claim to know where everything is?
Answer: 48%
Source: Esselte survey of 2, 600 executives

What percentage say that although their desk appears organized, they have trouble finding anything?
Answer: 12%
Source: Esselte survey of 2,600 executives

Of managers sruveyed, what percentage feel they are  often unable to manage the information they receive?                                                                                                                       Answer: 49%
Source: Reuters study

Workers productivity decreases by 20% to 40% every time they do this. What is it?                   Answer: Multitask
Source: University of Michigan study

An enterprise employing 1,000 knowledge workers wastes how much money in the inability to locate and retrieve information?
Answer: $48,000. Annualized this is $2.5 million
Source: IDC Report,  August, 2001

What percentage of their time do knowledge workers spend searching for information?Answer: 50%. This leaves only the remaining 50% of their time to actually use what they find.
Source: Reuters Study

What percentage does a worker's productivity decrease every time they multitask?
Answer: 20-40%
Source: University of Michigan study, 2001