B
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47 hours
47 hours -- hours spent on manual tasks per week for sales teams (2026)
Sales teams spend 47 hours per week on manual tasks like data entry and follow-ups.
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47 hours
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Duration Hours
Data Vintage
2026
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B
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Extraction
50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Salesforce
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Tier C
https://bizaigpt.com/blog/how-ai-improves-sales-engagement ↗
Source Article
【GUIDE】 How AI Improves Sales Engagement in 2026
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Salesforce
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Cited from Salesforce State of Sales report via third-party blog
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Industrymarketing
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sales teams: 47 hours hours spent on manual tasks per week. Source: Salesforce (2026). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/sales-reps-manual-hours-weekly-2026
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