- United Kingdom’s office workers waste 11.3 billion hours in administrative tasks every year
- Dropbox employees report that saving 7.9 hours/week by using AI
- Better technology and flexible work could unlock creativity
The new Dropbox data have quantified how long we are wasting and precisely where AI can help: it is said that the United Kingdom’s office workers only waste 11.3 billion hours per year in administrative tasks such as email and programming.
In fact, only two out of five (42%) United Kingdom workers have enough time for creative work, placing the country behind Germany and the United States.
Due to being bogged down in meaningless tasks, almost half (45%) can only spend 0-5 hours per week in developing new ideas or solutions, especially progressing.
United Kingdom’s office workers lose billions of hours per year in administrative work
It was discovered that one in four (24%) spent between six and 10 hours per week on administrative tasks, approximately the equivalent of an entire workday. Coincidentally, it was discovered that time limitations are the greatest limiter in innovation and long -term thought.
Half (51%) of the United Kingdom workers feel that they have the tools and time to do their job efficiently, but this still places them ahead of France and the United States, where workers seem to be less satisfied.
However, it seems that most office workers spend too much time chasing their tail. Given an extra hour in the day, 27% would update with the tasks and 18% would aim to reduce the workload.
Speaking about their own solutions, Dropbox said their employees who use AI save an average of 7.9 hours per week in tasks such as research, coding and writing, more or less a complete work day. An overwhelming number of Dropbox (96%) employees now uses weekly for tasks such as information recovery, rain of ideas, coding, documentation and writing.
Looking towards the future, the company states that the “systemic transformation” is vital, whether access to new tools or adopt flexible work models to allow greater autonomy.
