The given pie charts highlight some information about how much time was used for different activities in the USA offices during the period of 1980 and 2000.
Overall, it is obvious that initially, using phone was the most popular means of the process, also it was followed by using paper documents and meeting that aimed for average consumers compared to other activities. Meanwhile, face-to-face communication and the other activities showed noticeable percentages, yet the time that was spent on computer was pretty low. By 2000 noted numbers had changed a lot with the expand of computer usage and dropping of phone. However, throughout the mentioned first during two decades, face-to-face communication and other activities remained the same, while paper documents, email and meeting took lower places.
Looking for detailed, beginning with the phone in 1980; it showed 30% of the total used time by office members. However, it declined by almost 13% in the next 20 years. Similarly, the same trend is seen regarding meetings, which began showing 19% in the first year and decreasing to 6% in 2000. Alongside with mentioned activities, paper documents that was used for paper dropped by 16%, in 2000 which aimed for 20%.
Initially, in terms of the time for computers, this activity accounted for only 7% and was the slowest one among others, yet it reached with 30% of the total time just in 20 years. Furthermore, by 2000, there was added a new activity, namely email, and it represented at 8% that was among less spent activities.
Despite various changes in 20 years in the offices of the USA, face-to-face communication and other activities took as much as time in both years, showing 14% and 15% of the total spent time.