AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The ActivTrak Productivity Lab today announced benchmark data for the legal services sector, revealing employee focus sessions lasting approximately 16 minutes each — or 15% longer than their cross-industry peers — despite an average of 160 interruptions per day.

The Productivity Lab analyzed 446,020 hours from 892 anonymized employees representing more than 540 ActivTrak legal services customers to understand digital work day activities and habits. Benchmark data showed that these employees spend an average 6.8 hours per day on productive digital activity, with four breaks per day, at an average of 27 minutes per break. Other findings about how they spend their time include:

• Focus Session: The average focus session, or time employees operate without multitasking, collaborating, interruptions or attention shifts, is approximately 16 minutes per day, which is 15% higher than cross-industry peers.
• Multitasking & Collaboration: Employees spend approximately 2 hours per day collaborating in chat, messaging and meeting tools, and multitasking/context-switching between productivity applications, such as Zoom, Monday.com and Teams.
• Distractions: Office tools such as Google Calendar and Microsoft Word, and collaboration tools like Zoom and Slack, are the top two sources of focus disruptions, causing more than 160 interruptions per day.

Workload data also revealed that 80% of legal services employees are in the healthy utilization¹ zone...

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