State Of Work 2020 – Workfront

 

state of work

Workfront’s State of Work 2020 Report analyses the difficulties organisations are overcoming in order to achieve resilience in leadership, as well as discovers how and why they couldn’t resolve the issues. Data from this report was gathered from more than 3,000 professionals in the UK, US, Netherlands and Germany.

Some main findings from this report include:

  • More than half of survey respondents expressed their need to be rewarded on performance, not on completed tasks.
  • Nearly half of the professionals admitted that they spent only 40% of their day on their priority tasks.
  • Less than half of the employees agreed that organisational decisions were made based on data
  • Almost everyone surveyed claimed that they wanted to have more advanced technology at work.
  • More than 60% of respondents said that their organisations didn’t have any person in charge of Human Resources or workplace culture.
  • Most professionals believed that their roles are meaningful and are important within their organization, especially in the Netherlands. People were the proudest of their work in the United States, however, 70% of them wanted to be recognised more on their performance.
  • Wasteful meetings were chosen to be the most common cause of not getting work done in all regions, followed by Excessive Emails, Excessive Oversight and lack of standard workflow.
  • Most of the surveyed professionals agreed that being able to easily find information at work is extremely important and a majority of them believed that organisations were not taking advantage of technology to improve performance.
  • A majority of professionals hoped to have a platform to keep track of what is going on in their organizations and most of them believed that employees would be more likely to stay with their employers if advanced technologies were in place at work. Despite this, only 30% of them claimed to have access to such technology at their work.
  • According to surveyed professionals, too many applications and programs, as well as different communication platforms, affected their productivity at work. People in the Netherlands had the highest number of times being interrupted at work due to digital collaboration tools, while Germany had the lowest number of times.

Full report here.