The London office of large global bank recently commissioned a survey of 143 of its staff to find out where they spend most of their time.

Managing email was the top answer taking up 170 minutes of the working day. (These results would put the bank’s staff in the top 15% of all Emailogic clients in terms of time spent on email.)

As well as being heavy email users they also discovered the staff spent a lot of time managing large volumes of information.

The third highest proportion of the working day was spent in meetings – and in some cases unproductive or unnecessary meetings which they did not need to attend.

These results – while quite startling – will not be unusual.

Most companies will have the same issues: email and information overload combine with unproductive meetings to sap productivity and increase staff stress.

Why is this still the case, in an age where communications are faster and there is more focus on productivity than ever before?

Because, using email professionally and having productive meetings are skills which need to be taught. Do not assume that because email is prevalent that we all know how to use most effectively and efficiently.

Fortunately for the bank and for all Emailogic clients – our short sharp training interventions are available – and are proven to work.

Emailogic training on email and meetings have a 14 year proven track record of saving time, reducing stress and producing measurable results.