FYI: According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, roughly 14.5 million people in the U.S. are employed in sales. Considering there are an estimated 153 million people employed in the country that would mean around 9.5% of workers are in sales.
While one out of every ten workers is technically in sales according to the BLS definition, the true number is much higher. I would argue the majority of workers are in sales in some capacity, whether it’s in their job title or not.
Daniel Pink does a deep dive on this idea in his book To Sell is Human. Pink says most workers are in sales because we spend a significant amount of time trying to get others to part with resources.
He performed a study of nearly 10,000 workers to better understand what people actually do on the job every day. He asked workers what their everyday tasks were and unsurprisingly, the biggest chunks of time were devoted to email, face-to-face conversations with colleagues or clients, and meetings.
Regards,
Ted
https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2019/03/the-20-percent-rule/
