The pie charts illustrate the proportion of the time spent on various activities in the office in a particular country in 1980 and 2000.
Overall, the most percentage of used time was for phone in 1980, whereas the same was true for grapevine in 2000. Notably, e-mail section was added only in the year of 2000.
To begin with, in 1980 grapevine’s proportion of used time was only 2%, while face-to-face communications and meeting proportions accounted for 14% and 16%, respectively. Even though the percentage of time spent for paper documents amounted to one fifth of the whole pie chart it was not the most time used for section, as phone section recorded 32% of the total. Finally, percentage of time used for other activities was 15%.
In 2000, the proportions of used time for grapevine changed significantly indicating 26% of the total which made it the most time spent activity and new activity called e-mail joined the list with 8%. Similarly, the percentage of used time for phone (12%) and paper documents (10%) changed as well as meeting’s proportions which became 6%. By contrast, proportions for other activities and face-to-face communication categories remained the same.