{"id":80220,"date":"2024-08-14T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=80220"},"modified":"2024-08-13T17:08:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T00:08:32","slug":"small-business-productivity-trends-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/small-business-productivity-trends-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Business Owners Lose 1.5 Hours Daily to Wasted Time, Slack Survey Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to a recent study conducted by Slack<\/a>, a Salesforce company, small business owners are losing an average of 96 minutes of productivity daily, which amounts to three weeks of lost time per year. The study also found that technology helps save them time and effort. In particular, millennials report being more likely to use technology to help optimize their time \u2014 even more so than Gen Z.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Why it matters: <\/strong>At the beginning of 2024, 40% of small businesses considered this a make or break year<\/a>. The businesses, which generate roughly 44% of U.S. GDP<\/a>, must squeeze every ounce of productivity from their days in order to survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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