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Plugging Time Leaks
11. Business travel has become a hallmark of many of today’s jobs.
How many hours does the average person spend on work-relat-
ed travel per week? (Factor in that some people travel almost 115
continuously in their work.)
1 hour 4 hours 8 hours
2 hours 6 hours 10 hours
Your weekly business travel: ___________________________
12. Ordinarily, people throw away 15% of their mail unopened each
year. It took how many trees to fabricate that wasted mail (for all
U.S. mail recipients)?
100,000 2 million 100 million
750,000 5 million 2 billion
13. The average person sleeps how many hours per night?
5.8 7.7 8.4
6.9 8.1 9.1
You sleep: ________________________
14. About how many hours per week does the typical woman spend
shopping?
2 hours 7 hours 11 hours
5 hours 9 hours 13 hours
You spend (if female): ___________________________
15. How many minutes does the average person set aside each
weekend for grocery shopping?
37 minutes 68 minutes 93 minutes
59 minutes 81 minutes 104 minutes
Your weekend shopping time: _________________________
16. Executives estimate that they average how much time weekly on
unnecessary memos (both writing and reading them)?
17 minutes 48 minutes 1 hour 47 minutes
32 minutes 1 hour 5 minutes 2 hours 7 minutes
You spend: ____________________________
17. Each week, how much time do most people devote to paying
personal bills?
14 minutes 34 minutes 51 minutes
26 minutes 41 minutes 1 hour 10 minutes
You spend: ______________________________