2022 Work Trend Index: Annual Report 28% The trillions of anonymized productivity increase in after-hours work signals across Microsoft 365 show flexible since March 2020 work in action. But as employees make flexible work work for them, there’s still a need to combat digital exhaustion. On the face of it, for the average Teams user, meetings, chat, workday span, and after-hours and weekend work have all risen over the past increased more than 13% (46 minutes) two years.3 since April 2020, and after-hours and Meetings are still consuming a lion’s weekend work has grown even more share of our time. Since February 2020, the quickly, at 28 percent and average Teams user saw a 252% increase in 14%, respectively. their weekly meeting time and the number of weekly meetings has increased 153%. The 3 Workday span: Time between the first and last meeting or average Teams user sent 32% more chats chat of the day for the average Teams user. each week in February 2022 compared to After-hours work: Average span between the first Teams chat/ April 2020 and that figure continues to climb. call/meeting after 5pm local time to the last signal for the day. Weekend work: Average span between the first Teams Workday span for the average Teams user has meeting/call/chat to the last signal on Saturdays and Sundays.