Beside time we “intentionally” lose at work – checking Facebook or playing games – there are many other things that can slow us down at the office. Productivity of a “mind worker” (a person which is not doing any physical tasks) depends on communication and capability to fast track information.

Communications company called “Fonality” made a research on which everyday tasks takes most of the time. If you are familiar with most of the things that distracts you or your employees from work, you can make some changes that can save your company a lot of money.

Task that takes most of the time? Trying to get in touch with clients or colleague. Double reports or information that are not needed are also a great time consumers.

Study also shows that some solutions like “united communications” (UC) can save you a lot of time, but it’s hard to say how much in precise.

Report also says that “calculating potential savings for implementing of UC is inexact in the least. Different companies have different needs and implementations of UC doesn’t have 100% same components”.

However, you don’t have to be a rocket engineer, nor you need to hire one in order to find out that cloud computing is one of the ways to go in order to save time.

What are the factors that consume your precious time the most? Can you cut across them by using better technology?