Average American will spend this many years completing admin tasks during their lifetime

Average American will spend this many years completing admin tasks during their lifetime

The average American adult will spend a total of five years and four months of their lives doing admin tasks they hate, according to a study.Researchers who polled 2,000 adults found respondents typically spend 15 hours a week doing admin tasks in their jobs — and 4 hours in their personal lives.On average, they'll wade through 290 admin tasks a month.

Respondents said anything to do with spreadsheets and clearing out their email inboxes were among the most loathed.More than half (56%) have so much admin to do at work, it regularly eats into their free time.For three-quarters (76%), the knock-on effect of mounting work-related admin is having little time to take care of personal admin tasks like paying bills, taking the car to a mechanic or writing out a will.Conducted by OnePoll and commissioned by Brightpearl.com, a retail operations platform for world-leading brands and retailers, the study found 36% of Americans are overwhelmed by the amount of tasks they have to do.

Forty-eight percent simply can't stay on top of them.