How We Work: 14 Stats

We surveyed more than
2,000 enterprise workers
across the United States.

Here’s (some of) what
we found...

We struggle
to ﬁnd time
to innovate.

58% say we’re
so swamped with
day-to-day work
that we don’t have
time to think.
58%
SOURCE: STATE OF WORK 2018-19 | WORKFRONT.COM

Only 39% say
our company
encourages us
to set aside time
to innovate.
39%

We allow
email and
wasteful
meetings
to cripple
productivity.

We spend only
40% of our
workday on our
primary tasks.
40%

62% say wasteful
meetings get in
the way of work.
62%

We (sometimes)
struggle to ﬁnd
purpose.

On average,
we say 61% of
the work we do
matters to us
personally.
61%

55% of us would
rather sit through
a pointless
meeting than go
to the DMV.
55%

We’re wary of
automation
replacing
our jobs.
31
31

48% of us say we
know people who
have already lost
jobs because of
automation.
48%

We say that 37%
of the day-to-day
aspects of our
jobs are
automated.
37%

We’re
skeptical
of our
colleagues’
work.

If we could rate
our colleagues
like Uber drivers,
on average we’d
give them only
3.7 stars (out of 5).
3.7 / 5

My company
leadership
We rank ourselves as the most productive employees
and company leadership as the least productive.
*Out of 10
Myself 8.2*
7.2
6.8
My co-workers

We’re looking
for digital
tools to
manage
modern work.

51% aren’t using a
work management
platform but
would like to.
51%

58% say our
company is going
through a digital
transformation.
58%

We’re skeptical
when it comes
to the future
of tracking
our work.

34% believe that
within 5 years
we’ll be able to
track almost all
work being done
in our company.34%

24% say we’ll be
able to see how
all work aligns to
the bottom line.
24%

For the full scope
of data, as well as
recommendations
on addressing these
challenges, read
the report at
Workfront.com/SoW

How We Work: 14 Stats

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