The Workfront 2016 UK State of Enterprise Work Report reveals that while 92% of UK office workers consider themselves productive, they sacrifice personal time to maintain this productivity, often logging in outside normal hours. Major obstacles to productivity include excessive communication through phone calls, meetings, and emails, which detract from essential work tasks. Additionally, poor communication results in inter-departmental conflicts, leading to significant consequences like lost productivity and low morale.

1. What’s really happening in UK
companies?
5 Shocking Revelations From Workfront’s
2016 Uk State of Enterprise Work Report

2. Introduction
Office workers and the organisations they work in are constantly striving
to be more productive, to rise to the increasing intensity of competition
in their markets. But what keeps them from being as productive,
effective, and competitive as they aspire to be? To answer this question,
Workfront, the leading provider of enterprise work management
solutions, surveyed 2,051 UK officer workers. The results of the survey
might surprise you…

3. Finding #1: UK officer workers think of themselves as productive

4. 92% of officer workers
feel productive at their
jobs

5. 96% rate themselves as “very or quite productive”
85% say the same about their co-workers
65% say the same about their manager
60% say the same about company leadership

6. Finding #2: This productivity comes at a cost

7. The “lunch hour” is no more! Nearly half of office workers spend 30 minutes or less on
lunch
52% delay going to the bathroom to meet a deadline

8. 77% log into work/work email outside of normal business hours during the week
47% do this every day
62% log into work/work email at weekends

9. In other words, to be more productive, office workers must “create” extra time from lunch,
bathroom breaks, mornings, evenings, and weekends.
What’s driving this?

10. Finding #3: Office workers aren’t getting their real work done during standard work hours

11. When asked why they log into work outside of standard business hours…
34% said, “To get ahead of work”
31% said, “Too much work to do”

12. Which raises the question: what is keeping office workers from completing their real work
within standard business hours?

13. Finding #4: Phone calls, meetings, and email are pushing out real work

14. 4 in 10 say phone calls, meetings, and email get in the way of work

15. After email, meetings, and other administrative tasks, half of office workers say they
have 40% or less of their time left for their primary job duties

16. In other words, much of our efforts at workplace communication are keeping workers from
doing the work they were hired to do.

17. Finding #5: Poor work communication is causing inter-departmental conflict

18. When asked what the most common source of inter-departmental conflict was…
27% said lack of understanding about timing or urgency of tasks
37% said conflicting priorities
46% said lack of communication/miscommunication

19. Finding #6: That conflict is killing more than just productivity

20. When asked what the most common consequence of this conflict was…
1 in 3 said lost productivity
27% said missed deadlines
41% said low morale/high turnover