Clocking in
Meetings, emails, thinking? How do business leaders spend their working days?
Meetings, emails, thinking? How do business leaders spend their working days?
CEO time
60% of CEO time is taken up by meetings; CEOs spend 25% of their time on phone calls and at public events; only 15% of CEO time is spent working alone.
bnet.com
Work-related
56% of managers visit work-related websites during their free time and 30% read work-related books.
Chartered Management Institute
Time with Others
CEOs spend the majority of their time with other people (83%). Of these, most are employees of the same firm, but many are not. On average, CEOs spend 42% of their time with insiders only, 25% with both insiders and outsiders and 16% with outsiders alone.
hbs.edu
Workouts
85% of CEOs say they exercise daily. 70% begin their day with a workout of some kind while 15% exercise between meetings or during a lunch hour.
Yahoo!Finance
Unpaid work
Managers spend an average of 2.5 hours a week doing unpaid research in their own time.
randstad.co.uk
Lunch breaks
Executives take an average lunch break of 35 minutes, though they also work through lunch three days a week.
keyorganization.com
Information searches
Managers spend up to two hours a day searching for information; yet the same managers felt half the information they found to be useless.
Accenture
Emailing
It has been estimated that managers can spend two to three hours each day reading, sending and responding to emails.
academic-journal.org
Industry breakdown
Across industries, managers spend 30% to 60% of their time on administrative work and meetings and 10% to 50% on non-managerial tasks (travelling, participating in training, taking breaks, conducting special projects or undertaking direct customer service or sales themselves).
They spend only 10% to 40% actually managing employees by, for example, coaching them directly.
forbes.com
Just 5% of Fortune 500 CEOs have Twitter accounts.
Only 50% of the accounts are active.
personneltoday.com
Paperwork
On average, paperwork and related tasks consume 11.6 hours per week of a manager’s time, with senior managers both spending more time on these tasks and finding it more disruptive than middle managers.
getmoredone.com
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