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July 31, 2015     Chart of the Week: How Knowledge Workers Really Spend Their Time Interviews with workers in the U.S. and Europe reveal that even top performers spend 70% of their time on desk work and "managing across" (read: going to meetings), and that these activities provide little value personally or to the organization, Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen write on HBR.org. The good news is that there are strategies for making time for the work that actually matters: Birkinshaw and Cohen were able to help people free up almost a fifth of their time–that's a day per week–for more-valuable tasks. To view, download, and share charts and graphics like this one, visit our Visual Library (sign-in required). SOURCE: Make Time for the Work That Matters

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