Study: Companies Fear To Drown

07.03.17 / News / Author: Martin
Tags: information, media & communication

In almost every second case the effort for the information search gobbles up at least 15 percent of the work time Karlsruhe, 09.07.2008 – a large part of the German managers feared that control to the business processes in the face of ever more multifaceted technical media are increasingly turning to a jungle. Already the search gobbles up at least a fifth of the working time according to information of the employees in every fourth case. However, although this problem is recognized, most companies draw no conclusions. A survey of living-e AG, over 300 medium-sized and large companies coming to these results. According to the study, 37 percent of surveyed executives most definitely see\”the danger that they threaten to become lost in the rapidly growing volume of information. \”Another 29 percent are not quite so pessimistic, but already believe that companies with this problem probably\” be faced. The circle of the corporate managers who do not perceive such difficulties is relatively small with 11 percent, however, and fear not for the next time.

However, hides in the eyes of a quarter of the respondents behind already no question focused on the future, but for them, the jungle is already reality. This assessment is also currently has an average high time spent searching for information. According to almost every second company it gobbles up at least 15 percent of the work time, at 24 percent, there are even one-fifth or even more. In a significant minority, the companies for the regular information research, a relatively low time overhead are according to the study of the living-e AG: only in every fifth case for about five percent or even less of the work time is taken. Already a loss of productivity by only five percent adds up to an at one million dealing with at a computer workstation to at least 80 million hours per year\”, Dr.