- British office employees lose 11.3 billion hours on administrative tasks each year
- Dropbox employees report saving 7.9 hours / week using AI
- Better technology and flexible work could unlock creativity
New Dropbox data has quantified the time we waste and precisely where AI can help – British office employees alone lose 11.3 billion hours a year on administrative tasks such as email and planning.
In fact, only two out of five British workers (42%) have enough time for creative work, placing the country behind Germany and the United States.
Due to being bogged down in tasks devoid of meaning, almost half (45%) can only spend 0 to 5 hours per week to develop new ideas or solutions, which makes progress particularly slow.
British office employees lose billions of hours a year on administrative work
One in four (24%) proved to be between six and 10 hours per week in administrative tasks – roughly the equivalent of an entire work day. By coincidence, time constraints have proven to be the greatest limiter of innovation and long -term reflection.
Half (51%) of British workers believe they have the tools and time necessary to do their job effectively, but that still places them before France and the United States where workers seem less satisfied.
Nevertheless, it seems that most office employees spend too much time hunting their tail. Given an additional hour during the day, 27% would catch tasks and 18% would aim to reduce the workload.
Speaking of his own solutions, Dropbox said that his employees using an AI-A-Economize on average 7.9 hours a week on tasks such as research, coding and writing-more or less a full day of work. An overwhelming number of Dropbox employees (96%) now use weekly AI for tasks such as information recovery, brainstorming, coding, writing and writing.
For the future, the company declares that “systemic transformation” is vital, whether access to new tools or the adoption of flexible work models to allow greater autonomy.
