Employees on average say they are interrupted an average of 13.9 times per day. (Photo: Shutterstock)
Busy work is getting in the way of…work, according to Workfront's sixth annual State of Work report.
Workfront surveyed 3,750 professionals across the U.S., U.K., the Netherlands and Germany, and found that just 43 percent spend their workweek on the jobs they were hired to do.
"The number one culprit? Wasteful meetings," the authors write. "And based on our qualitative review of thousands of companies and teams, the central driver of wasteful meetings is poor mechanisms for strategic alignment, work planning and work status communication."
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Katie Kuehner-Hebert
Katie Kuehner-Hebert is a freelance writer based in Running Springs, Calif. She has more than three decades of journalism experience, with particular expertise in employee benefits and other human resource topics.
