At the Hive we’re all about finding new ways to save time in each day and thought we’d share some cool stats about saving time. Feel free to add any cool stats you’ve heard in the past about saving/ wasting time! And don’t forget to use meebee.com to save time and make life easy! Enjoy.
-On an average day, there are 17 million meetings in America.
-The average person uses 13 different methods to control and manage their time.
-1 hour of planning will save 10 hours of doing.
-The average worker sends and receives 190 messages per day.
-Taking 5 minutes per day, 5 days per week to improve one’s job will create 1,200 little improvements to a job over a 5 year period.
-When someone is asking for our time for a meeting, 80% of the time, there is an alternate date and time that will be acceptable.
-80% of employees do not want to go to work on Monday morning. By Friday, the rate only drops to 60%.
-20% of the average workday is spent on “crucial” and “important” things, while 80% of the average workday is spent on things that have “little value” or “no value”.
-In the last 20 years, working time has increased by 15% and leisure time has decreased by 33%.
-60% of meeting attendees take notes to appear as if they are listening.
-78% of workers in America wish they had more time to “smell the roses”.
-Angry people are twice as likely to suffer a heart attack as a person in better control of their emotions.
-It almost always takes twice as long to complete a task as what we originally thought it would take.
-The average working person spends less than 2 minutes per day in meaningful communication with their spouse or “significant other”.
-The average working person spends less than 30 seconds a day in meaningful communication with their children.
*Statistics found on http://www.balancetime.com/articles/tm_facts_and_figures.htm
