As shown in Table II, for many managers, a considerable proportion of the working
day was spent in meetings (47 per cent of the respondents stated that they spend more
than 1 hour in meetings with 21 per cent over three hours). In our sample 26 per cent,
spend one hour or more per day on conference calls. Moreover, managers spend time on
the phone although, interestingly, 34 per cent spend less than one hour per day on
average but 27 per cent claim to use it for two hours or more. Managers also use the
internet (35 per cent for about one hour, 23 per cent for two or more hours) and use the
company’s intranet (19 per cent for one hour, 15 per cent for two or more hours). But the
time spent on e-mails for many was quite considerable, 61 per cent spending two hours
or more. Despite this 23 per cent also spend two hours or more travelling.