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Anti-procrastination café | Could this quirky remote working business save productivity?

Could this quirky remote working business save productivity?
Could this quirky remote working business save productivity?

You likely know the feeling of having a seemingly unachievable workload, and anxiety about not having enough hours in the day, yet still finding time to procrastinate.

It could be making 30 cups of tea a day, watching YouTube videos or simply staring blankly off into space, but all that time adds up.

In fact, an estimated one in five workers admit to regularly delaying tasks they need to do. According to a survey of 2219 persons performed by Darius Foroux, 88% of workers postpone at least an hour a day.

Half of the respondents said they frequently used the internet as a procrastination tool, whilst this tendency is especially strong when people are working from home, where they spend on average 1.12 hours per day procrastinating.

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