You run a consultancy or agency. Three people on the bench, two proposals out, and a utilization report that keeps sliding left. The question everyone asks — and almost nobody answers with data — is simple: what is a good utilization rate for consultants?
Gallup's latest data shows just 31% of U.S. employees are engaged at work in 2025, down from a 36% peak in 2020 — and only 20% globally. Here are the real numbers and what's driving the decline.
Amazon, JPMorgan, and Meta mandated five-day returns — yet only 12% of executives plan new RTO rules and just 14% of companies require full-time office. The real return-to-office numbers, compared.
How many hours does the average employee work per week? It depends who's counting: BLS measures 34.3 hours; full-time employees self-report 42.9. The spread is the story.
How much time do employees spend on Slack? About 90 minutes of active use per workday — and roughly nine hours of being connected to it.
It is 11:47 PM and the reply lands anyway — four words, sent from a phone on a nightstand. The benchmark is worse than most leaders assume: 76% of employees check work email after hours, and among remote workers the number climbs to 81%.
The average remote worker now spends 2.3 hours a day on video calls. Here is the real benchmark for time in meetings, why it tripled since 2020, and where the fix is.
PMI's own data puts the share of failed projects tied to poor communication between 30% and 56%. Here is what each number really counts — and where the fix is.
The honest answer to how many hours a day employees actually work: 2h 53m to 4h 12m per 8-hour day. The benchmarks, why the studies disagree, and what fills the rest.
How many apps does the average company use? The honest range is 47 to 660, and the benchmark that matters is the one sized to your headcount.
How many hours do small business owners work? The research-backed answer is more than you think — and the more uncomfortable finding is what those hours are made of.
How many hours do employees spend on email? Roughly 11 hours a week — more than a quarter of a 40-hour workweek. Here's the benchmark, what that time is made of, and what good looks like.