Microsoft Surveyed 38,000 People in 200 Countries to Learn More

question 45

Multiple Choice

Microsoft surveyed 38,000 people in 200 countries to learn more about their productivity at work and the role that technology played. Which of the following was a finding of this survey?

• A) Most people did not attribute their productivity to technology.
• B) More than two-thirds of the sample considered meetings to be productive.
• C) Most people attributed their unproductive office hours to software related problems.
• D) More than forty percent of the sample considered felt they were successfully able to use computer-based scheduling and other productivity tools.

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