In Russia, they named areas with high time costs for preparing reports

Every fourth employee in Russia spends an average of one out of five days a week writing reports and approving documents. This is stated in the service's research. hh.ru , which was reviewed by Izvestia on February 25.

"Analysts <...> conducted a survey among employed Russians and found that 25% of employees spend more than six hours a week preparing non-automated reports, while 38% spend the same amount of time approving documents, applications and requests," the study says.

It is noted that the number of hours spent on routine and paper tasks is different for workers in different professions. Employees of the energy complex spend most of their time on this. According to the study, 53% of respondents in this industry spend more than six hours a week coordinating documents, applications and requests.

In addition, healthcare and pharmaceutical workers, municipal employees, and workers in the industrial sector and manufacturing spend more than six hours preparing responses and coordinating them (29% each). At the same time, 41% of respondents from the IT, logistics and transport sectors spend no more than an hour a week on such tasks.

According to Dmitry Makhlin, HRlink's Director of development, recruiters and HR spend a lot of time recruiting new employees, manually transferring data and working with documents. He noted that automating these processes would not only reduce the time spent, but would also help employers save money.

"Automating the signing of documents allows you to reduce the registration of a candidate to 15 minutes. Due to this, recruiters spend an average of eight times less time working with applicants, and the company saves up to 1.5–2 thousand rubles only on the labor hours of the personnel specialists involved. In the case of mass hiring and staffing from several personnel officers, this amounts to tens and sometimes hundreds of thousands of rubles per month," said Makhlin.

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