Telephone tag costs GBP22bn a year says Siemens; New research helps identify the cost of wasted business time.

M2 Presswire, November, 2003

M2 PRESSWIRE-3 November 2003-SIEMENS: Telephone tag costs GBP22bn a year says Siemens; New research helps identify the cost of wasted business time(C)1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:11032003 A new survey has confirmed what many bosses have suspected for years - office workers are wasting their time.

Indeed, the cost to British business of staff playing `telephone tag` is estimated to be almost GBP2bn a month. The on-line survey of 30,000 computer based workers undertaken on behalf of Siemens Communications revealed that some 70 per cent of workers believe that up to a ...