{"id":4311,"date":"2018-04-30T10:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-04-30T09:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/?p=4311"},"modified":"2026-01-29T10:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T10:38:38","slug":"extra-five-hours-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sage.com\/en-gb\/blog\/extra-five-hours-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s what businesses would do with an extra 5 hours a week"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What would you do with an extra five hours a week? We recently surveyed 3,666 Sage UK customers and asked them what they’d do with an extra five hours a week. Many of these customers run small or medium-sized businesses in the UK. They also use accounting software<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We found 44.65% of respondents said they would spend it on leisure. Examples included studying for a degree or spending time with their spouse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diane Middelton of COS Bookkeeping<\/a> says: “If I had an addition five hours of time per week, I would split it between work and leisure. In terms of work, I would spend some time working on our cash flow and budgets and additional leisure time would be doing an additional exercise class or a walk.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, 30.53% of respondents said would spend it working on their business. Examples included marketing their website and building relationships with customers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janet Halliwell of Pink Penguin Photobooths is just one respondent who admitted she’d like to spend more time working on her business. She says: “I am almost constantly working at the moment and never seem to have enough time to do all the things I need to do.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were 19.06% of respondents who said they would spend this free time on a hobby. Examples included golf and gardening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul Donno, managing director of 1 Accounts<\/a>, says: “If I had more time I would try and play golf more, this is a great de-stress from a work point of view even if it goes wrong. This year my business has really taken off and I haven’t played golf much or had much leisure time, hopefully it will change next year.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were 5.76% of respondents who said they would spend this free time on something else. Examples included sleep and housework.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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We also recently asked 3,000 small and medium-sized businesses what type of admin tasks they\u2019re spending time on. Here are the results:<\/p>\n\n\n\n