The average worker spends 51% of each workday on the same unnecessary tasks

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• The average worker spends more than half their working day on time-wasters, leading to stress over time.
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• Commuting, meetings, and emails were the top three waste culprits.
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• Companies should consider turning off email during peak working hours, and letting all workers work remotely.
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There are thousands of books on time management, and thousands more on work/life balance, but almost all of them either nibble around the edge of the problems or pretend they don't exist. So, here's the straight skinny: The reason most people are stressed for time is that they are wasting more than half of each working day on time-wasting tasks.

Here are the culprits and some simple solutions to get recapture the time that you're otherwise destined to waste.