B
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5 hours
5 hours -- weekly hours lost to app switching for Enterprise employees (2021)
Employees lose 5 hours per week to app switching according to Qatalog's Workgeist research.
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5 hours
Unit
Duration Hours
Data Vintage
2021
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1,000
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B
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75
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60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Qatalog
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Qatalog
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Qatalog Workgeist study with the Ellis Idea Lab at Cornell, 1,000-worker survey
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Industrymarketing
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Enterprise employees: 5 hours weekly hours lost to app switching. Source: Qatalog (2021). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/app-switching-hours-lost-weekly
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