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The numbers don't lie. Here's some information on what low productivity is costing you and your organization.
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
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