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12 hours
12 hours -- weekly hours lost to information silos for employees (2026)
Forrester research found that employees lose 12 hours per week to information silos.
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12 hours
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2026
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20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
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Forrester
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https://www.kobin.team/blog/agency-file-management ↗
Source Article
Agency File Management in 2026 — Stop Losing Client Files to Google Drive Chaos
The file management problem in agencies is almost universally underestimated — until it isn't. In the early days, Google Drive works fine. You have two clients, one shared folder each, and everything is findable by memory. Then you add three more clients. Then you hire someone. Then you bring on a c…
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Forrester
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Forrester study commissioned by Airtable, cited by Kobin blog
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employees: 12 hours weekly hours lost to information silos. Source: Forrester (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/forrester-information-silos-hours-lost
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/forrester-information-silos-hours-lost" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>12 hours</strong> -- weekly hours lost to information silos for employees<br><small>Source: Forrester (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/forrester-information-silos-hours-lost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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