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2013holidaypromo rescuetime5/20/2023 ![]() ![]() There’s been a lot of talk about how much email and communication eats into our days. For Slack users, 8.8% of our day is spent in the app multitasking), we jump from one task to another nearly 300 times per day and switch between documents and pages within a site 1,300 times per day. When it comes to switching between different apps and websites (i.e. However, when we look at how we use those different apps and websites, things get a bit hairier. Here’s what our research discovered about the biggest time wasters of last year: On an average day we use 56 different apps and websitesĭepending on what you do, this number might not seem that bad. But we live in a distracted world and one of our greatest challenges is to stay focused and on task. It’s great to pat ourselves on the back about how productive we were in 2017. What were the biggest digital distractions of 2017? Writing apps were used more evenly throughout each day with the most productive writing time happening on Tuesdays at 10am. Time spent in Software Development tools (light blue) While writers are more likely to be early birdsįor those who spend their time writing, it’s a different story. Looking at the time spent in software development tools, our data paints a picture of a workday that doesn’t get going until the late morning and peaks between 2–6pm daily. What about how specific digital workers spend their days? Time spent on email (light blue) Software developers don’t hit peak productivity until 2pm each day Our days start with email, with Monday morning at 9am being the clear winner for most time spent on email during the week. Very productive time (light blue) Email rules our mornings, but never really leaves us alone However, breaking it down to the hour, we do our most productive work on Wednesdays at 3pm. Our data showed that we do our most productive work (represented by the light blue blocks) between 10 and noon and then again from 2-5pm each day. Here’s what we found out: Our most productive work happens on Wednesdays at 3pm Looking at the workday (from 8am–6pm, Monday to Friday), how are we spending our time? When do we do our best work? Do different tasks normally get done at different times? Understanding our overall productivity is a fun exercise, but our data lets us go even deeper. What does the average “productive day” look like? What we found is that, on average, we only spend 5 hours a day working on a digital device.Īnd with an average productivity pulse of 53% for the year, that means we only have 12.5 hours a week to do productive work. One of the biggest mistakes so many of us make when planning out our days is to assume we have 8+ hours to do productive work. How much of our day is spent working on a digital device? On November 14th, the average productivity pulse across all RescueTime users was a not-so-shabby 60. So for example, if you’re a writer, time spent in Microsoft Word or Google Docs is categorized as very productive while social media is very distracting.įrom that data, we calculate your productivity pulse-a score out of 100 for how much of your time you spent on activities that you deem productive. RescueTime is a tool that tracks how you spend your time on your computer and phone and let’s you categorize activities on a scale from very distracting to very productive. Now, what do we mean when we talk about the “most” or “least” productive days? January 6th-the first Friday of the year-was the least productive day of 2017. On the other side of the spectrum, we didn’t get a good start to the year. With American Thanksgiving the next week and the mad holiday rush shortly after, mid-November is a great time for people to cram in a few extra work hours and get caught up before gorging on Turkey dinner. In fact, that entire week ranked as the most productive of the year. Simply put, our data shows that people were the most productive on November 14th. What was the most (and least) productive day of 2017? Want to start understanding where your own time goes every day? Sign up for RescueTime for free today. In 2017, we logged over 225 million hours of digital time from hundreds of thousands of RescueTime users around the world.īy studying the anonymized data of how people spent their time on their computers and phones over the past 12 months, we’ve pinpointed exactly what days and times we do the most productive work, how often we’re getting distracted by emails or social media, and how much time a week we actually have to do meaningful work. And this starts with understanding how you spend your days, when you’re most productive, and what’s getting in your way. And another year turns over without any real understanding of how we actually spent our time.īut our mission at RescueTime has always been to help you do more meaningful work. Thinking back on your last year, you probably have no idea.
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