Less than half the time on a business trip is spent doing work – with reading and watching TV filling time between meetings, research has found.<br /><br />A poll of 1,000 adults who have travelled for work spend most of the time simply frittering away the hours, with just 48 per cent of it spent working productively.<br /><br />Watching telly 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.<br /><br />And 94 per cent find time to explore the local area on an average 72-hour work trip.<br /><br />But 60 per cent find it frustrating when they don’t do anything useful or meaningful with the free time they have.<br /><br />The research was commissioned by Premier Inn, which has released The Downtime Series to help business travellers get the most out of their time away [www.premierinn.com/downtime-series].
