Nearly 80% of Employees are Working at Cross Purposes to Their Colleagues

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Jun 29, 2022

Wrike, the most powerful work management platform, today released new findings that uncover the human cost of work complexities brought about by the Digital Era, which has caused a proliferation of synchronous applications and unstructured work. According to the research report commissioned by Wrike, “%3Ci%3EDark+Matter+of+Work%3A+The+Hidden+Cost+of+Work+Complexities%3C%2Fi%3E,” knowledge workers spend 89 working days a year and five days of personal time on wasted work or work that isn’t accounted for, including duplicate work, unproductive meetings, and information tracking. Nearly 80% of knowledge workers surveyed said they work at cross purposes with colleagues because they have been given tasks that contradict one another, understand instructions differently, or don’t have access to the same information and reach different conclusions.