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Time Wasters at Work and How to Avoid Them

Meetings now consume 21.5 hours per week for the average employee, and nearly half are considered wasted. Add Slack notifications, endless follow-ups, and nonstop context switching, and deep work barely survives the modern workday.

Time Wasters at Work and How to Avoid Them

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Meetings now consume 21.5 hours per week for the average employee, and nearly half are considered wasted.

Add Slack notifications, endless follow-ups, and nonstop context switching, and deep work barely survives the modern workday.

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Meetings now consume 21.5 hours per week for the average employee, and nearly half are considered wasted. Add Slack notifications, endless follow-ups, and nonstop context switching, and deep work barely survives the modern workday. We broke down the biggest workplace time-wasters ↓

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