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14 hours
14 hours -- weekly hours lost to admin tasks for sales reps (2026)
Sales reps lose about 14 of their 51 work hours each week to administrative tasks, including manual data entry and record cleanup.
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14 hours
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Duration Hours
Data Vintage
2026
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75
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
60
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Forrester
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Forrester
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Forrester Sales Activity Study; includes manual data entry and record cleanup
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sales reps: 14 hours weekly hours lost to admin tasks. Source: Forrester (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/sales-reps-admin-hours-14-of-51
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/sales-reps-admin-hours-14-of-51" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>14 hours</strong> -- weekly hours lost to admin tasks for sales reps<br><small>Source: Forrester (2026) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/sales-reps-admin-hours-14-of-51" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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