Overview
- A OnePoll survey of 2,000 workers found only four in ten use annual leave for holidays, with an average of 11 days repurposed for admin such as emails, bills and trip booking.
- Among those who do not rest on days off, 36% felt productive while 25% were frustrated at using leave for chores.
- National Rail and the Rail Delivery Group are promoting train journeys as time to "reclaim your time," partnering with Clare Evans on tailored productivity guidance and a quiz.
- Reported benefits of ticking off tasks in transit included feeling less stressed (40%), improved mood (40%) and greater control over upcoming days (41%).
- Travellers most often wrote shopping lists (32%), sorted phone photos (29%) and added calendar events (27%), with 64 minutes cited as the ideal taskable journey length; outlets differed on the share of respondents who are train travellers.