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THE BIGGESTWORK INEFFICIENCIES

THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES

1. DISTRACTIONS & INTERRUPTIONS

Of marketing professionals cited distractions and interruptions as the

74%#1 work inefficiency



The average person gets 1 interruption every 8 minutes, or approximately, 7 an hour, or 50-60 per day

The average interruption takes 5 minutes, totalingAbout 50% of the average workday

80% of those interruptions are typically rated as “little value” or “no value” creating approximately3 hours of wasted time per day



A manager on average spends3 hours each day on interruptions.

On any given day, an executive an expect to be Interrupted 150-300 times a day,not counting emails.

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2. OVERFLOWING INBOXES

The average worker sends and receives

190 messages per day

of marketers said overflowing email inboxes is

22%1 of the top 4Work inefficiencies



Of teams use email to share files with international teams

75%Email is the most common way to share files between locations



1/3of all people would rather clean toilets than clean out their inbox

A Yahoo! Survey found that



Of people admit they regularly check work email over the weekend

62% 50%admit to checking work email while on vacation



In 2008, there were158 billion marketing emails Sent by US retailers and wholesalers. By 2013 that number is expected to grow to 258 billion

The average corporate employee spends25% of their workday on emailRelated tasks. This compare to 14% spent on face-to-face meetings and 9% spent on the phone.

The average user spends about1 hour and 47 minutes using email


3. UNPRODUCTIVE MEETINGS

Of marketers rank unproductive meetings as one of the top

23%#1 inefficiency38%Listed unproductive meetings as one of their top two work inefficiencies

56%Listed unproductive meetings as one of their top two work inefficiencies


3. UNPRODUCTIVE MEETINGSOn an average day there are 17 million meetings

in America9 out of 10People daydream in meetings

60% of meeting attendees take notes to appear as if they are listening


3. UNPRODUCTIVE MEETINGS

A daily “standup” allows each team member to discuss what they’re working on and if there are any blockers.


4. RANDOM WORK REQUESTS

of marketers said Random work requests is

36%1 of the top 4Work inefficiencies



Too often, internal creative services is treated as a drive-thru, where every nutty idea had by leadership is put into the calendar, even though most of it will be fruitless. Frustrating for the designers, artists and writers.



We measure on-time delivery against published SLAs, forecast error rate, etc.

Sometimes you don’t know what you need until someone at the top asks for it…

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