Forgetting important things seems to be a day-to-day occurrence
Looks like buying a notepad and pen should be at the top of our shopping lists, as busy Brits forget on average five important facts or tasks every day.
Forgetting to call people back at work and replying to emails are the most common jobs which slip our minds during the hectic shifts at the office.
Failing to remember colleagues' names, leaving things on the printer and forgetting to bring a packed luch aslo featured high on the list, it emerged.
More than one in two Brits blamed 'trying to do too much' as a reason for forgetting things with others simply blaming 'stress'.
A quarter said they were relied on to remember too much and a fifth said there weren't enough hours in the day for them to get on top of everything that needed to be done.
Marketing director Gregg Corbett from Avery Office and Consumer Products, which commisioned the research, says: ''This research demonstrates exactly what workers up and down the country feel: that modern life is very demanding and things can easily be forgotten and left off to-do lists.
''People have so much to do in their lives that the most basic things like remembering to bring lunch to work or replying to important emails are being completely forgotten about. This then causes further complications when we try to correct things that we’ve overlooked, adding even more things to our ever growing list of daily tasks.''
“It seems the more we can do to simplify people’s daily lives, the better all of us will feel and the less mistakes we will make.”
When it comes to their personal lives, Brits are just as likely to be disorganised with more than half of the top ten list of things we forget being household chores.
Gregg Corbett added: ''Both at home and at work, people seem to be forgetting things more and more.
''For example, with work pressures as they are, only 40 per cent of people have the time to learn and remember which supplies go in which printer at work, leading to printing mistakes that, over time, cost businesses money, time and resources.
TOP TWENTY LIST OF THINGS BRITS FORGET
1. To return phone calls
2. To reply to emails
3. People’s names
4. To send birthday cards
5. Charge phone
6. Passwords
7. Take meat out the freezer
8. To water plants
9. Pick up things from the printer
10. Take the rubbish out
11. Take the washing out of the machine
12. To post things
13. Pick up packed lunch
14. Record TV show
15. House keys
16. Turn alarm off at weekends
17. Glasses
18. Wallet
19. Anniversaries
20. Washing up
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