A new study reveals that British people find it challenging to complete essential life administration tasks, with a significant portion procrastinating on tasks like life insurance, writing wills, and managing household bills.
Time-poor Brits are terrible at life admin – with life insurance, writing wills and credit card bills all tasks we love to avoid. The study found that life insurance takes the average Brit over 10 months to sort out – with just over a third saying it was on their to-do-list for one to two years. Britain has been revealed to be a time poor nation which is terrible at getting life admin done.
Almost two thirds (63 per cent) say that they feel ‘weighed down’ by their to-do lists and 50 per cent have delayed important tasks because it felt overwhelming. 70 per cent say they find paperwork and forms intimidating, which is putting them off completing life admin – with Gen Z (16-24) most likely to feel overwhelmed (87 per cent). It comes as the average Brit was found to procrastinate for over a month before ticking off an item – with some generations better at keeping on top of their growing lists than others. On average, Gen Z are the quickest, taking less than a month (0.96 months) to tackle a task – while 45-54-year-olds are the biggest procrastinators, leaving items uncompleted for over a month (1.3 months). The research conducted by the Post Office revealed that a lack of time is the No.1 barrier for completing life tasks (35 percent), followed by too much information to process (30 percent) and reading complicated instructions (27 percent). In fact, 43 per cent of Brits say they would hire a personal assistant to help them with life admin if they could afford one. Managing household bills ranked as the life task Brits struggle with the most (32 per cent), followed by writing a will (25 per cent) and filing tax returns (18 per cent). For Gen Z and Millennials (16-34), pensions are the sticking point – with 25 per cent struggling with this the most. But it is life insurance which languishes on the nation’s to-do lists, with the new research revealing it took the average respondent who has it over 10 months to sort out
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