What's happening to productivity on enterprise teams? As enterprises grow, so do the demands on their employees in terms of productivity. Surprisingly, work tools and processes often make workers not more productive, but less. This year’s State of Enterprise Work Report from Workfront, the leading provider of work management solutions for enterprises, set out to identify the drivers behind this phenomenon and how it affects office workers. Here are the 5 biggest revelations from this year’s study…

1. What’s Happening to Productivity on Enterprise Teams
5 Shocking Productivity Stats From Workfront’s 2015 State of Enterprise
Work Report

2. Introduction
As enterprises grow, so do the demands on their employees in terms of productivity.
Surprisingly, work tools and processes often make workers not more productive, but
less. This year’s State of Enterprise Work Report from Workfront, the leading provider
of work management solutions for enterprises, set out to identify the drivers behind
this phenomenon and how it affects office workers. Here are the 5 biggest revelations
from this year’s study…

3. Finding #1: Office workers feel pretty confident about their own productivity.

4. We asked office workers, “How would you rate the following groups overall with regard
to their productivity?”
81% rate themselves high in productivity

5. Finding #2:
Office workers are much harder on their colleagues’ productivity.

6. 55% rate their co-workers high in productivity
54% rate their managers high in productivity
48% rate their company leaders high in productivity
44% rate their direct reports high in productivity

7. Finding #3:
Email is a double-edged sword in terms of productivity.

8. We asked office workers, “What is the impact of each of the following on your
productivity?”
88% said email makes them more productivity
Then we asked, “Which of the following, if any, ever get in the way of your work?”
40% said excessive email gets in the way of their work

9. Finding #4:
Office workers are too busy for their primary job duties.

10. We asked office workers to give a “best guess” estimate for what percentage of their work
week is taken up by various work activities.
45.7% Performing the primary duties of my job
12.3% Emails
10.1% Administrative tasks
8.6% Useful and/or productive meetings
8.3% Interruptions for nonessential tasks
8.1% “Wasteful” meetings
6.8% Everything else
After email, meetings, and interruptions, office workers have only 45% of their time for the
work they were hired to do.

11. Finding #5: More office workers are finding productivity in project management
software.

12. We asked office workers, “What is the impact of each of the following capabilities on your
productivity?”
82% said the ability to access work information from anywhere makes them more
productive
49% said project management software makes them more productive

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