HR teams lose out on focussed work time

It found that between 2021 and 2024, meeting volumes declined by 33.2%, and dropped by another 38% between 2024 and 2025.

“Employees are now attending 15 fewer meetings/week, a 58.6% drop since remote work was at its all-time highest in 2021,” it read.

Time for distractions

Meanwhile, the report also attributed the low productive time to distractions and interruptions throughout the workday, such as emails, chat messages, and in-office pings.

A previous report from Unily recorded that 77% of employees consider notifications from workplace digital tools to be a distraction. In fact, 48% of them said they are distracted by them every 30 minutes.

“While employees can’t say no to all of these requests for their time, there’s a huge opportunity to reduce these distractions by setting aside dedicated focus time to work without interruption,” the Reclaim.ai report said.