Less than half of the time on a business trip is spent on work – reading and watching TV fill the time between meetings, research has shown. A survey of 1,000 adults who have traveled for work spend most of their time simply wasting hours, with only 48 percent of that spent working productively. Watching TV in the hotel, reading a book and playing video games are among the most common things to do to kill time between meetings or work events. And 94 percent find time to explore the local area on an average 72-hour business trip. But 60 percent find it frustrating when they don’t do anything useful or meaningful with the free time they have. The survey was commissioned by Premier Inn, which has launched The Downtime Series to help business travelers make the most of their time away [www.premierinn.com/downtime-series].
