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2 hours
2 hours -- daily time spent searching documents for knowledge workers (2026)
IDC estimates that workers spend 2.5 hours per day searching for documents.
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2 hours
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https://www.kobin.team/blog/agency-file-management ↗
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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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knowledge workers: 2 hours daily time spent searching documents. Source: IDC (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/idc-document-search-hours-per-day
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