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25%
25% -- share of company time spent on admin for UK SMEs (2018)
UK SMEs spend approximately 25% of their total company time on administrative tasks.
- Stated as an approximation based on 71 days per year
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Value
25%
Unit
Percentage
Data Vintage
2018
Entity
Geography
UK
Evidence Quality
B
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50
Source Trust
60
Citation Chain
20
Independence
30
Methodology
45
Freshness
95
Source
Sage
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Tier C
https://www.axongarside.com/blog/how-to-reduce-admin-in-training-organisation ↗
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4 reasons to cut admin in your leadership training organisation
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Sage
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Methodology
Derived from Sage's 2018 report on UK SME admin time
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Industrymarketing
Company SizeSMB
RegionUK
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UK SMEs: 25% share of company time spent on admin. Source: Sage (2018). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-sme-admin-time-share-2018
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<blockquote cite="https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-sme-admin-time-share-2018" style="border-left:3px solid #2563eb;padding:12px 16px;margin:16px 0;font-family:system-ui,sans-serif;background:#f0f4ff;"><strong>25%</strong> -- share of company time spent on admin for UK SMEs<br><small>Source: Sage (2018) · <a href="https://lighthousedata.io/data/uk-sme-admin-time-share-2018" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Lighthouse Intelligence</a></small></blockquote>
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