The State of Work-life Balance

Our giant, 2018 study of over 185 million hours of working time tracked in RescueTime

Key Takeaways

• 40% of knowledge workers use their computer after 10 pm Workers average at least 1 hour of work outside normal working hours on 89 days/year
• Most people get just 2 hours and 48 minutes of productive device time a day (or 14 hours a week)

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True Cost of Communication

What would happen if you put a $ on the time you spend on email and IM?

Key Takeaways

• Time spent on Slack and Email cost companies an average of $28,209 per employee/per year
• Software developers spend ~21% of their total time on communication (while executives are closer to 37%)

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Email and IM overload

Email and IM are taking over our workday. But just how bad is it? We looked at…

Key Takeaways

• The average knowledge worker “checks in” on email and IM every 6 minutes 35.5% of workers check their email or IM every 3 minutes or less
• 40% of knowledge workers never get 30 minutes of straight focused time a day

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What happens when Slack goes down?

Many workers live in Slack. So what happens when it goes down for an entire day?

Key Takeaway

People were an average of 5% more productive when Slack’s service was down

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Multitasking in the workplace

It’s a fact that human beings can’t multitask. But we try anyway. Here’s what we found when we looked at how distracted modern workers are:

Key Takeaways

• The average knowledge worker spends 40.1% of their productive time a day multitasking with communication tools
• We only get 1 hour and 12 minutes a day without being interrupted by email and IM

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225 Million Hours of Productive Time

Our roundup of data from 2017, looking at the trends and highlights from 50,000+ users.

Key Takeaways

• On average, we use 56 different apps and websites a day (and bounce between them nearly 300 times)
• Almost 7% of every workday is spent on social media
• Most people check email or chat 40+ times a day

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The most distracting news stories of 2018 (According to data)

There’s no denying 2018 was the year of news (fake or not). Here’s what we found when we looked at the data around major news events around the globe. =

Key Takeaways

• On average, people spent 48 hours reading the news in 2018 (or 12 minutes a day)
• North Americans react the most to major news events (according to time spent on news sites during major moments)
• We spend ~4% of all our device time reading the news

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