You are in office all day, and yet at the end of the day you wish you’d gotten more done. There’s always tomorrow, you think. Problem is, tomorrow is going to disappear and the day after and the day after that too, leaving you wondering where time went. Here’s what’s happening.

1. You are in office all day, and yet at the end of the day you
wish you’d gotten more done.There’s always tomorrow,
you think. Problem is, tomorrow is going to disappear
and the dayafter and the day after that too, leaving you
wondering where time went. Here’s what’s happening.
HOW WE WORK
ARE YOU IN THE TOP 20%
OR THE LAST 20% ?
5
hours
5.5
hours
For companies
with more than
500 people
For companies
with less than
100 people
You spend
about 9-11 Hours
in the Office
IT DOESN’T MATTER WHETHER
YOUR COMPANY IS LARGE OR SMALL
DAILY AVERAGE WORK HOURS
20%
20%
and yet you spend
only 5-7 Hours
on actual work
HOW LONG ARE YOU IN OFFICE AND
HOW LONG ARE YOU ACTUALLY WORKING?
TIME AT OFFICE versus TIME AT WORK
Most employees spend similar time in
the office but top 20% employees
manage twice the number of hours
on work than the last 20%

2. Nearly
40 - 50% of
work time is
lost in emails
& meetings
Those
5 - 10 minute
breaks for personal
calls, texting,
browsing,
breaks can exceed
to 15-20
minutes
SO, WHERE DOES ALL THE TIME GO?
Most employees
barely spend 25-30%
of their office hours
on core work!
Employees leave on time,
spend 8-9 hours in office &
put in 5-6 hours of
actual work
Employees leave late,
spend 10-12 hours in
office & put in 5-6 hours
of actual work
for personal
LEAVING ON TIME VERSUS LEAVING LATE
BY STAYING LATE ARE YOU
ACTUALLY WORKING MORE?
Our customers have seen huge opportunity
to improve. There is a 30-40% gap between
desired & actual productivity levels

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AND THEN THERE ARE
DISTRACTIONS & DISTURBANCES
About Sapience
AND LET’S NOT EVEN TALK
ABOUT POST-HOLIDAY BLUES!
It takes individuals 2-3 weeks
to get back to normal working
hours and there is a drop of
1 working hour per day
after a vacation!
This data is from Sapience Annual Work Trends report
Sapience is an innovative People Analytics @ Work solution. At the individual level, it empowers users to
own their productivity and wellness through mindful work. At the enterprise level, managers and CxOs get
accurate Workload and Capacity Utilization insights across every business dimension of interest, enabling
them to align their talent pool to strategic needs. Sapience is helping over 150,000 users at 90 enterprises
across 18 countries to move the needle on employee engagement, employee wellness, organization
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When you want to focus, other people and those infernal mobile beeps
keep interrupting. Do you know that you get and average of
2-4 minutes of uninterrupted time per activity, a maximum of
9-10 minutes of uninterrupted time per activity, excluding meetings?