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People who take a backdoor save 2 days per year

By Wieke Veenboer | #!31Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:00:42 +0200+02:004231#31Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:00:42 +0200+02:00-6Europe/Amsterdam3131Europe/Amsterdam202331 01am31am-31Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:00:42 +0200+02:006Europe/Amsterdam3131Europe/Amsterdam2023312023Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:00:42 +0200006007amSaturday=9#!31Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:00:42 +0200+02:00Europe/Amsterdam7#07-01-2023#!31Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:00:42 +0200+02:004231#/31Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:00:42 +0200+02:00-6Europe/Amsterdam3131Europe/Amsterdam202331#!31Sat, 01 Jul 2023 06:00:42 +0200+02:00Europe/Amsterdam7#

Do you often pull a Great Houdini on a night out? Do you take a backdoor? Or, as they say in America: do you take an Irish Exit? Then you are just doing great in terms of time management, as research shows. This research was conducted by UNSW’s Time Management Institute, where they interviewed 2000 Australians. who, on average, went to a party 25 times a year..

And what turns out? From the moment we decide to go home to the moment we actually leave, there is an average of 45 minutes. And if you assume 25 parties a year, that means you spend an average of almost nineteen hours (eighteen hours and forty-five minutes, to be precise) saying goodbye to people.

But of course there are also outliers: people who take longer to say goodbye or people who attend more than 25 parties a year. Or worse: people who do both. And they also saw those exceptions in this research, where there was a reasonably large group that spent two days a year saying goodbye to people at a party.

Dean Hoddle, who led this research, has a very good piece of advice for all partygoers: ‘Don't fall for it. Almost all hosts of a party are too busy, or too drunk, to care about whether someone has taken a backdoor.’

Actually sounds quite logical... But what are we going to do with all this ‘new’ time? A whole new world opens up for me.