Every year Americans make over 420,000,000,000 telephone calls totaling some 600,000,000,000 minutes. That’s an average of 2400 minutes spent on the telephone by each and every one of us! Nearly 2 days!
How can we possibly get all of our work, life and fun done and talk so much? For many people it’s a balancing act – literally. To start with, very few of us ever do one thing at a time. We –
• send an email, write a note and talk on the phone while we think about our approaching meeting
• enter data while we talk on the phone and use sign language to tell our colleagues that we’re running late
• nurse the baby, stir the saucepan and talk on the telephone
And all the while we have the telephone handset cradled in the crook of our neck.
So. how can we make life easier for ourselves?
Some 220,000 satisfied Customers of telephone headset retailers, Headsets.com, have an answer – a telephone headset. While telephone headsets can’t give us more hours in the day they can make multitasking easier for the 75% of us who multitask (some estimates are as high as 90% of business people multitask everyday) .
Mike Faith, CEO of Headsets.com tells us that “While telephone headsets don’t make more minutes they do help to make our minutes more productive”. Some of Headsets.com’s Customers boast of productivity improvements in the order of 45%. And when we spend nearly 2 days complete each year on the telephone that can mean a big difference in our life/work balance. Chris Hicken, Headsets.com’s Customer Service Manager sights Customers who can even make it home earlier thanks to the productivity increase resulting from use of telephone headsets.
The benefits to businesses and private individuals can also be seen in the growth headset manufacturers like Plantronics which produce a broad range of products from simple corded headsets for cell phones, through Bluetooth cell phone and computer headsets to corded desk top telephone headsets and their premium line of wireless headsets like the CS50, CS55 and CS351 with a range of up to 300 ft from their base station.
The growth in popularity of virtually all types of telephone headsets is reflected in Plantronics’ & Headsets.com’s on-going success as increasing numbers of people turn to hands free communication to answer their multitasking needs and find that illusive spare minute to live again.
