These are the biggest productivity drains on communicators, Ragan survey says
Heavy workloads and inefficient meetings zap productivity, according to a comprehensive Ragan Salary & Workplace Culture Survey report. What’s slowing you down at work?
Communicators are taking on more responsibilities than ever. Why do they feel punished for it?
Ragan’s Salary & Workplace Culture Survey: 2022 Edition reveals the top productivity drains on communicators.
The main drains are a heavy workload, unnecessary and inefficient meetings.
The Ragan survey shows that heavy workloads are the greatest productivity drain (61%), followed closely by unnecessary (59%) and inefficient meetings (56%). These stats emphasize how endless meetings only pile onto the high number of day-to-day responsibilities for communicators, delaying their completion of major projects in a timely manner.
These drains are exacerbated by “Other internal departments not respecting our time, dumping things on us last minute, also senior leadership not making decisions fast or early enough, and then our team having to scramble,” wrote one communicator.
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