"The massive shift to remote and hybrid work was seen as a revolution, but two years later, not much has really changed in how most people collaborate day-to-day."
That's the takeaway from a new report from SWOOP Analytics, which analyzed more than 266,000 employees across 19 large organizations using Microsoft's Teams platform.
The findings: Only 1% of employees have five or more meetings a day on Teams.
Less than 17% of employees have more than two meetings a day.
The average employee spends less than an hour a day on Teams.
76% of users don't use Teams' chat channels, and 71% don't post on the company's social network.
email remains the primary mode of collaboration for most, with the average employee spending nearly two hours a day reading and writing emails.
"The real problem is not too many meetings but that outdated tools and habits still predominate," writes SWOOP's CEO in a blog post at Entrepreneur.
"Email remains the primary mode of collaboration for most, with the average person spending nearly two hours a day reading and writing emails."
SWOOP estimates that optimizing Teams use could increase workforce productivity by 4.5%.
"With the right focus and practices in place, the promise of hybrid work can finally be fulfilled
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