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How Do People Spend Their Time at Work (Infographic)

• moocow01 14y ago
  "Creativity is the residue of time wasted.” - Albert Einstein. As jobs require more creativity, the MBA way of thinking regarding production and resources becomes less and less applicable. Anyone who is creative knows that it is near impossible to just turn it on for a straight 8 hours. In my opinion, in regard to intellectual/creative jobs we need a new frame of reference rather than the 8 hours a day, 9-5 measurement - how about instead we just judge on results and rather than judging how much time somebody "wastes"
  • jmhoran 14y ago
    I completely agree. I'm much more concerned about tasks accomplished rather than how long it took you to do it. Get your stuff done for the week in 30 hours and leave for the other 10. I don't care, just get it done.
• colanderman 14y ago
  The "$ wasted per month" metric doesn't make any sense for salaried employees (at which this metric seems targeted). Many salaried positions sport creativity as a bottleneck (I know this is certainly true for myself as a software engineer). That the productivity of employees in these professions cannot be measured in hours is inherently the reason that they are salaried and not hourly. I strongly suspect that were the working hours of the measured employees were reduced to 35 hours a week that one would not see an equal reduction in productivity.
  • eli_gottlieb 14y ago
    That the productivity of employees in these professions cannot be measured in hours is inherently the reason that they are salaried and not hourly. No, the reason is so that they can be kept in the office more than 40 hours/week without any additional pay.