The charts illustrate the percentage of time spent on various activities in office.
In 1980, Phone would take the most amount of time contributing to 32% of the total time. Followed by Paper documentation which took 20% of the total time. However, the lowest time taking activity would be Grapevine, contributing to 2% of total time. Meetings and face-to-face communication would take 16% and 14% respectively. Other carious activities contributed 15% of time.
In 2000, a new activity called e-mail would join, contributing 8%, as the era of internet came into existence. However, Grapevine was the activity where most amount of time would be spent, taking 26% of the total time. The total time spent on Phones and Paper documents would reduce significantly as compared to 1980, as they drop down 12% and 10% respectively. Meetings contributed 8% of time as e-mail replaced meetings for important annoucements. Meanwhile, face-to-face communication and time spent on other activities remained same, 14% and 15% respectively.
This chart illustrates how the internet revolution contibuted to changes in total time spent in office. E-mails played important part in collaborating with needs of offices, i.e important announcements, and professional communication. Use of grapevine increased significantly as office workers grew in to comfort and leisure, since most of the work they had to do was being made easy with technological advancements.