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White collar workers waste an average of 45% of their workday. Not because they aren't smart, but because they were never taught organizing skills to cope with the increasing workloads and demands.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
Americans waste 9,000,000 hours per day searching for misplaced items.
Source: American Demographics Society
The average United States executive wastes six weeks per year searching for missing information in messy desks and files—this translates into one hour per day.
Source: The Wall Street Journal
An enterprise employing 1,000 knowledge workers wastes $48,000 per week, or nearly $2.5M per year, due to an inability to locate and retrieve information.
Source: IDC Report
The typical knowledge worker spends about 2.5 hours per day or roughly 30% of the workday searching for information. This number...needs to be adjusted to reflect the circumstances of each specific enterprise...the number represents a general average of time spent searching based on the ubiquity of intranets within organizations.
Source: IDC White Paper "The High Cost of Not Finding Information"
Knowledge workers spend 50% of their time searching for information, leaving only the remaining 50% to actually using what they have found.
Source: Reuters Study
Only 56% of executives say the amount of paperwork in their office has decreased due to technological advances. Forty four percent (44%) believe paper flow has either increased or is staying the same.
Source: Office Team Study
The average desk worker has 36 hours of work on his or her desk and spends 3 hours per week sorting piles trying to find the project to work on next.
Source: "The Overload Syndrome" by Richard Swenson
Workers productivity decreases by 20% to 40% every time they multitask or "task-switch".
Source: University of Michigan Study