With the internet becoming increasingly accessible, the number of e-mails sent and received globally has increased each year since 2017. In 2022, there were an estimated 333 billion e-mails sent and received daily around the world. This figure is projected to increase to 392.5 billion daily e-mails by 2026.

E-Mail marketing Despite the increasing popularity of messengers, chat apps and social media, e-mail has managed to remain central to digital communication and continues to grow in uptake. By 2025, the number of global e-mail users is expected to reach a total of 4.6 billion - an approximate six hundred thousand increase in users, up from 4 billion in 2020. Not only that, when it comes to online advertising e-mail has seen higher click-through-rates than on social media. In Belgium and Germany, these were 5.5 and 4.3 percent respectively - compared to the 1.3 percent global average CTR for social media during the same time period.

Gmail Launched in April 2004, Google’s Gmail has earned its spot as one of the most popular freemail services in the world. According to a 2019 survey, its popularity worldwide was trumped only by Apple’s native iPhone Mail app with 26 percent of all e-mail opens worldwide taking place on the platform. Millennials surveyed in the United Kingdom listed Gmail among their top 5 most important mobile apps, while a similar survey carried out in Sweden saw Gmail tie with WhatsApp for a spot among the top mobile apps nationwide.

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Wasting Time At the Workplace Statistics: Wasting time at the workplace is a widespread issue with significant implications for productivity and financial performance. Recent statistics reveal that 89% of employees admit to wasting at least 30 minutes daily, with 18.5% acknowledging they spend three or more hours on non-work-related activities each day.

The average employee spends approximately 2.9 hours per workday on non-work activities, including internet browsing, social media, and personal tasks. This time loss translates into substantial financial costs; U.S. companies lose about USD 1.7 million annually for every 100 employees due to inefficiencies.

Meetings are a significant contributor to time wastage, with employees spending an average of 21.5 hours per week in meetings, nearly half of which are deemed unproductive. Unnecessary meetings alone cost U.S. businesses approximately USD 37 billion annually.

Email management is another area of concern; employees check their emails an average of 121 times per day, consuming about 28% of the workweek. Additionally, 47% of employees consider meetings the biggest time-waster, and 53% believe that taking regular breaks enhances work quality.

Understanding these statistics underscores the need for organizations to implement effective time management strategies and streamline workflows to enhance productivity and reduce financial losses associated with time wastage. But how common is wasting time at work, and what kind of impact does it have? Statistics tell a surprising story about how much time is lost and why it happens.

This statistic displays information on the amount of time individuals spent awake per day in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014, broken down by age group and gender. That year, the average awake time for UK adults aged 16 years and older was *** minutes or ** hours and ** minutes. In 2014, the average UK male spent ** minutes longer being awake than the average female, at *** minutes and *** minutes respectively. A 2016 survey found that UK adults aged 16 years and older spent roughly *** minutes, or nearly ** percent, of their daily awake time on media and communications activities, such as watching television and videos, listening to the radio or music and communicating via email or instant messengers.