How much time do you waste at work?

[qualeety]

according to the survey, we spend average of 36 minutes per day or 3hrs per week doing our personal tasks....see

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl.../Business/home

anyone brave enough to say how much one wastes his/her time?


i know i won't

[Marc]

Not at all surprising to me. I'd bet it's closer to an hour a day or even more if you include personal discussions (not always at the water cooler or coffee pot) and stuff like that.

[ScottK]

all of it.

wait...
I'm thinkning the question was "how much of your time does work waste"

[Bill Pflanz]

Didn't we have also have a poll on how many hours you work per week? I think the research shows that professionals are now putting in more than 50 hours a week. If that is the case, are you wasting your time or the company's time? Companies can't have it both ways where they want everyone to put in more than 40 hours but not let the workers do the personal things during the day when that is the only possible time.

Bill Pflanz

[Marc]

Excellent point, Bill.

[Claes Gefvenberg]

In Reply to Parent Post by Marc

Not at all surprising to me. I'd bet it's closer to an hour a day or even more if you include personal discussions (not always at the water cooler or coffee pot) and stuff like that.

I agree, and the line is often blurry. It is not always so easy to define waste...

Some would consider visiting the Cove a waste of time, and yet I feel certain that what I have learned here and applied at work has saved time for me and been useful to the company.

Besides, how often do we discuss work during our free time?

/Claes

[Gert Sorensen]

In Reply to Parent Post by Claes Gefvenberg

I agree, and the line is often blurry. It is not always so easy to define waste...

Some would consider visiting the Cove a waste of time, and yet I feel certain that what I have learned here and applied at work pushes has saved time for me and been useful to the company.

Besides, how often do we discuss work during our free time?

/Claes

I'm with you on this issue Claes. Generally I believe that the focus is all wrong in this type of discussion. It is all about how many hours of "work" you put in, and not about the quality of the work. Let's be honest: How many of those who put in 50, 60, 70 hours of work actually perform work of a quality that can stand scrutinizing?? I truly believe that a lot of the worst decisions are made by managers who do not know when to go home and take care of their families. The same managers do not want to admit that they have made a bad decision and stick by it....
Good management is about making sure that everybody performs to the best of their abilities, with a sound respect for their personal circumstances, and knows how to delegate responsibility and the power to perform.

I can not subtract the amount of time I spend sleepless thinking about my job, why should they be bothered about the time I spend on the cove or outside smoking in the blizzard?? Besides, I really learn a lot here, especially about the proffessional approach to quality.

[chergh - 2008]

I get through all the work that is assigned to me usually within the deadlines for it. As long as I do this I don't see why it matters if I spend sometime doing personal things at work.