joe hurd. i can have a conversation via im.bly half an ear on a conversation with a person. >> in the room with you. >> yeah, exactly. can you do it now? >> if you're doing two or three things at the same time, are you really doing them all well? >> well, you know, this is not neurosurgery we're talking about here. >> well, it's work, though. >> but you can do a lot of that simultaneously. >> joe may be able to pull that off, but many corporate executives say the volume of voicemail and email they get has become unmanageable, eating up an average of three hours a day. combine that with a corporate culture that values endless meetings and face time with the boss, and you can see why so many employees toil into the night just to get their real work done. we visited the corporate headquarters of best buy, the electronics retailer in richfield, minnesota. >> hey, john. it's stac'. >> employees stacy verstraight, jason dehne... >> oh, i sent it to her already. >> and marissa plume say that putting in 60-to-80-hour weeks got them pat