Average American will spend this many years completing admin tasks during their lifetime

The average American adult will spend a total of five years and four months of their lives doing admin tasks they hate, according to a study.Researchers who polled 2,000 adults found respondents typically spend 15 hours a week doing admin tasks in their jobs — and 4 hours in their personal lives.On average, they'll wade through 290 admin tasks a month.

Respondents said anything to do with spreadsheets and clearing out their email inboxes were among the most loathed.More than half (56%) have so much admin to do at work, it regularly eats into their free time.For three-quarters (76%), the knock-on effect of mounting work-related admin is having little time to take care of personal admin tasks like paying bills, taking the car to a mechanic or writing out a will.Conducted by OnePoll and commissioned by Brightpearl.com, a retail operations platform for world-leading brands and retailers, the study found 36% of Americans are overwhelmed by the amount of tasks they have to do.

Forty-eight percent simply can't stay on top of them.