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COVER STORY
New research conducted with 6,045
office workers in nine EU countries
(France, Germany, UK, Italy, Sweden,
Poland, Netherlands, Czech Republic
and Hungary), including 1,006 office
workers in the UK, has revealed that
the average worker wastes 21 days
each year due to slow or ineffective
technology.
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A working day is considered as 8 hours
•
A working year is considered as 250 days (excluding
weekends and average number of public holidays
across the nine countries surveyed)
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Workers in the UK are entitled to 28 days of statutory
annual leave, which can include public holidays
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According to ONS, in April 2015, the median gross
weekly earnings for full-time employees was £528
That’s over four lost working weeks,
longer than many employees’ paid
annual leave*.
“Technology is supposed to make our
lives easier and help us to work faster,
however, in the real world, out-of-date
technology and technology that is hard
to use, often slows people down, forcing
them to waste time,” said Stuart Sykes,
Sharp’s connected technologies have revolutionised the way that businesses
engage with information, technology and each other. The company continues
to innovate, ensuring that it helps its channel partners unlock the potential in
their customers’ businesses
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Managing Director, Sharp UK.
The biggest time drain reported was
searching for files on a server – 23 minutes
per day – thanks to poor search tools.
Other routine time wasters included using
the printer, respondents reported that they
spent seven minutes each day waiting for it
to warm up and nearly ten minutes waiting
for pages to come out.
This adds up to almost 40 minutes
wasted per employee per day, the
equivalent of 167 hours or four weeks of
dead time every year, costing businesses
over £2,100 per employee per year**.
In addition, almost 80 per cent of office
Office workers
waste more
time on slow
tech than
they spend on
holiday
PEOPLE WAIT 7 MINUTES
A DAY FOR THE PRINTER
TO WARM UP
PEOPLE WAIT 10 MINUTES
PER DAY FOR PAGES TO
PRINT
BETTER TECHNOLOGY WOULD
MAKE 64% PEOPLE MORE
PRODUCTIVE
77% OF PEOPLE THINK
THEIR OFFICE NEEDS UP
TO DATE TECHNOLOGY
BETTER TECHNOLOGY WOULD
STOP 19% WORKERS FROM
JOB HUNTING
SEARCHING FOR FILES
ON A SERVER COSTS
23 MINUTES PER DAY
THIS EQUALS 40 MINUTES
PER DAY, OR 167 HOURS
A YEAR
WORKERS WOULD SAVE 21
DAYS PER YEAR WITH UP
TO DATE TECHNOLOGY
