Organizations are reaching a tipping point when it comes to workplace productivity, with large numbers of employees saying too much of their time is still spent on ‘work about work’ rather than the skilled, strategic work they were hired to do, according to Asana’s latest Anatomy of Work global index.
The report comprises findings from a survey of 9,615 knowledge workers — commonly defined as employees whose jobs mainly involve acquiring and using information in a creative way — in the United States, UK, Australia, France, Germany, and Japan, and seeks to uncover some of the biggest barriers currently facing them in the workplace.
