The majority of senior executives and managers say their workload is too heavy.
Almost three-fourths (73%) of business leaders consider their workload to be too heavy, according to a new national survey of 230 senior executives and managers conducted by NFI Research.More than one-quarter (26%) of respondents consider their workload to be significantly too heavy, and almost half (47%) consider it to be somewhat too heavy.
Sixty-nine percent of executives also say that the business workload (the sheer amount/volume of work) of people in their department and/or organization is too heavy. Seventeen percent consider the workload to be significantly too heavy, while more than half (52%) considers it somewhat too heavy.
“The problem with such a heavy workload is it can totally disrupt any sense of work-life balance and decrease the amount of thinking time, because everyone is so busy,” said NFI Research CEO Chuck Martin, author of SMARTS (Are We Hardwired for Success?).
By company size, more senior executives and managers in large organizations (92%) say they consider the business workload of people in their department and/or organization to be too heavy, while 63% of those in small organizations say the same.
“Expectations today are higher than they have ever been,” said one survey respondent.
“Combine the urgency factor of email, the pressures of doing it now and working with a new generation of the "I" workers all contributes to a never ending workload.”
When it comes to their personal workload, 82% of business leaders at large companies (those with 10,000 or more employees) say their workload is too heavy.
At small companies (those with 500 or fewer employees), 74% consider their own workload to be too heavy.
NFI Research surveys 2,000 senior executives and managers globally every two weeks. It has chronicled the transformation of business and countless workplace issues for more than eight years.NFI's Chairman and CEO Chuck Martin is a best-selling author of seven business books and frequently presents NFI's findings to businesses around the world.
