{"id":18423,"date":"2020-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/know-youre-spending-much-time-excel\/"},"modified":"2020-12-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T06:00:00","slug":"know-youre-spending-much-time-excel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.planview.com\/know-youre-spending-much-time-excel\/","title":{"rendered":"How You Know You\u2019re Spending Too Much Time on Excel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ever get the feeling that you’re spending way too much of your time working on Excel? There can be a myriad of other facets to your professional life but whenever you think of a day at work it always seems to consist of jumping from one spreadsheet to another. To the point that when people ask what you do you struggle to make it sound more interesting as the simple answer could just be “I’m on Excel all day”.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It’s no surprise as <\/span>nearly 90% of companies consistently use Excel<\/span> for their budgeting, planning and forecasting. This is despite the fact that, for large UK businesses at least, 33% of poor decision-making is down to spreadsheet errors. One wonders how they manage to maintain such an addictive presence in our lives. Spreadsheets don’t have to be a bad thing but if you have a sneaking suspicion that their presence in your life isn’t a positive, maybe it’s time to reconsider your relationship with them.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you think you might be spending too much time on Excel, see how many of these resonate with you:<\/span><\/p>\n