Work inefficiencies.

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2. THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES
1. DISTRACTIONS & INTERRUPTIONS
Of marketing professionals cited
distractions and interruptions as the
74%
#1 work inefficiency

3. THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES
1. DISTRACTIONS & INTERRUPTIONS
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, totaling
About 50% of the average workday
80% of those interruptions are typically rated
as “little value” or “no value” creating approximately
3 hours of wasted time per day

4. THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES
1. DISTRACTIONS & INTERRUPTIONS
A manager on average spends
3 hours each day on
interruptions.
On any given day, an executive
an expect to be Interrupted 150-
300 times a day,
not counting emails.
A productivity consultant
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5. THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES
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 4
Work inefficiencies

6. THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES
2. OVERFLOWING INBOXES
Of teams use email to share
files with international teams
75%
Email is the most common
way to share files between
locations

7. THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES
2. OVERFLOWING INBOXES
1/3of all people would
rather clean toilets
than clean out their
inbox
A Yahoo! Survey found that

8. THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES
2. OVERFLOWING INBOXES
Of people admit they regularly
check work email over the
weekend
62% 50%
admit to
checking work
email while on
vacation

9. THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES
2. OVERFLOWING INBOXES
In 2008, there were
158 billion marketing emails
Sent by US retailers and wholesalers. By 2013 that
number is expected to grow to 258 billion
The average corporate employee spends
25% of their workday on email
Related tasks. This compare to 14% spent on face-to-
face meetings and 9% spent on the phone.
The average user spends about
1 hour and 47 minutes using email

10. THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES
3. UNPRODUCTIVE MEETINGS
Of marketers rank unproductive
meetings as one of the top
23%
#1 inefficiency
38%Listed unproductive
meetings as one of
their top two work
inefficiencies
56%Listed unproductive
meetings as one of
their top two work
inefficiencies

11. THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES
3. UNPRODUCTIVE MEETINGS
On an average day there are
17 million meetings
in America
9 out of 10
People daydream
in meetings
60% of meeting attendees take
notes to appear as if they are
listening

12. THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES
3. UNPRODUCTIVE MEETINGS
A daily “standup” allows each
team member to discuss what
they’re working on and if there
are any blockers.

13. THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES
4. RANDOM WORK REQUESTS
of marketers said
Random work requests is
36%
1 of the top 4
Work inefficiencies

14. THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES
4. RANDOM WORK REQUESTS
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.

15. THE BIGGEST WORK INEFFICIENCIES
4. RANDOM WORK REQUESTS
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…