The PowerPoint presentation has become such a reviled part of business meetings today that a large percentage of presentation audiences would rather give up sex, do their taxes or even go to the dentist to get out of watching one. According to a survey of over 1,000 working adults conducted by IBOPE Zogby International on behalf of SlideRocket, PowerPoint presentations induce the cold sweats in both those who must create them AND those who have to sit through them. Granted, SlideRocket is trying to usurp PowerPoint as a way to drive meeting presentations, but that doesn't change the fact that some people would do anything to get out of watching a crummy slide show. What would you give up in exchange for taking a pass on the next PowerPoint preso?
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33 percent of those surveyed said they dread creating PowerPoint presentations, while 29 percent dread sitting through them.
24 percent of people said they would rather forego sex for the night than sit through a lame preso.
21 percent said they would rather do their taxes than watch another PowerPoint.
20 percent reported they'd rather go to the dentist than watch their colleagues click through more PowerPoint slides.
18 percent said they'd rather work on Saturday than suffer through a PowerPoint meeting.
32 percent of people say that a boring PowerPoint presentation has put them to sleep.
More than half of those said they snoozed once or twice, but 20 percent have fallen asleep so many times they lost count.
30 percent of those surveyed admitted to sneaking out of a PowerPoint presentation at least once.
The most common PowerPoint pet peeves named by respondents:
too much textboring graphicslack of analyticslarge file size
While Millenials are 20 percent more familiar with PowerPoint software than Baby Boomers, they're also twice as likely to have snuck out of a PowerPoint presentation.
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