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10 Worst Time Wasters at Work
Tania Khadder
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Thanks to widespread downsizing, workloads are piling up. Unfortunately, extra hours in the day are not.
Maximizing your time at work can mean the difference between leaving at a reasonable hour (i.e. holding onto your sanity) and staying late unnecessarily. You’ve got a life outside work. Don’t you want to live it?
There are countless ways you waste time on the job.
Sometimes, it’s unavoidable. Other times, it can be overcome with a minor shift in your approach. Either way, the first step to addressing time wasters is to identify them.
Here are the 10 most common time sucks and some tips on how to defeat them.
neelamaniam
5 months ago
12 comments
Very good info's with solutions. Will be sharing with my sales team ;-)
sjones1837
5 months ago
4 comments
These are all very good points that I've known for years and figured out on my own. Especially good for people who are working as "temps"!!!!
reshma
5 months ago
8 comments
nice.
dorothylcain
5 months ago
98 comments
This is an excellent article. I saw this a lot at my previous job. I am old school, when cell phones and smoke breaks did not exist. They definitely take up the time and folks don't get a lot done and I am amazed at mid to large size companies that have slacked off and do not discipline their people about this. I do what my mother, yes my mother, always told me, always be on time, do not accept outside personal calls unless it is a life or death emergency, and do your job first and everything else do on your lunch break. I still do that.
Ag_fridaygoda
5 months ago
2 comments
valuable info