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  • 40 million
    Number of white-collar American employees working in cubicles.
    Smithsonian Institution

  • 28%
    Percentage that visuals reduce meeting time by, keeping presenters and audience on target and the agenda moving .
    Wharton Business School

  • 85%
    Percentage of learning that occurs visually when presenting new, complex information.
    GBC Independent Research

  • 20%
    Percentage of information that humans retain from what they hear.
    GBC Independent Research

  • 30%
    Percentage of information that humans retain from what they see.
    GBC Independent Research

  • 70%
    Percentage of what humans retain from what they both see and hear.
    GBC Independent Research

  • 73
    Number of times the average worker is interrupted every day.
    Cube Smart, Inc./White Pages

  • 5 minutes
    Average time spent for each interruption.
    Cube Smart, Inc./White Pages

  • 20 minutes
    Number of minutes for that worker to get back to their original level of concentration.
    Cube Smart, Inc./White Pages

  • 20%
    Percentage of all interruptions that are crucial or important.
    Cube Smart, Inc./White Pages

  • #1
    Ranking of research-based predictors for workplace job performance and satisfaction as having the ability to concentrate in one’s own workspace.
    Buffalo Organization for Social and Technological Innovation

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