“The High Cost of Not Finding Information”…

Following up on the 2001 and 2004 surveys, here are some interesting figures from the 2008 one by LexisNexis:

- 62% of professionals report that they spend a lot of time sifting through irrelevant information to find what they need;
- 68% wish they could spend less time organizing information and more time using the information that comes their way;

- Workers admit that not being able to lay their hands on the right information at the right time impedes their ability to work efficiently;
- 85% agree that not being able to access the right information at the right time is a huge time-waster;

- More than 40% of the survey participants indicate an inability to handle future increases in information flow;

- While an average workday for white collar workers is 8.89 hours, the survey finds that on average, 7.89 working hours are used conducting research, attending meetings, and searching for previously created documents, and;

- White collar professionals spend an average of 2.3 hours daily conducting online research, with 1 in 10 spending 4 hours or more on an average day.

Download the survey results: http://www.lexisnexis.com/literature/pdf/Workplace_Productivity_Survey_Results