The average engineer spends just 41% of their time on productive, innovative work Modern hardware engineering teams are facing a productivity crisis. Research commissioned by Dassault Systèmes shows that, on average, engineers spend just 51% of their time on innovation and design work. It also shows that they are typically working with outdated information 20% of the time, meaning that engineers are able to dedicate just 41% of their time to innovative, productive work with up-to-date input data