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Time management

I do not have time

I do not have time

The most frequent complaint of the working person: "I on what do not have not enough time". Words that rate of a life is constantly accelerated, became the advertising slogan, helping to sell for a long time already technical novelties. About the careerists who are not seeing lives because of a permanent job, hundreds books and thousand newspaper articles are written. Meanwhile researches show, that at office we lose a considerable part of time for nothing. Why so occurs?

As in Lewis Carroll's fairy tale, we should run all faster at least to remain on one place. For example, the given researches, spent to the USA (Work/Life Survey, the author - company Monster), show, that consider 61 % of participants of interrogation itself overloaded on work, 82 % of workers have declared, that are dissatisfied with a parity work/private life, and 72 % have told, that more than 40 hours per week work. Taking into account that research is spent annually, its authors do a conclusion, that the percent of processing employees in the American companies gradually increases. This growth makes 1-2 % a year under various articles of interrogation. The same occurs and in Europe.

For example, still three years ago in one of the American editions article eulogising tradition of the Spanish siesta - after-dinner rest which piously adhere in many countries of the Old World has been published. The author of article advised to Americans, увязшим in race behind success, to brake and borrow the European experience. But in a reality happens on the contrary. There were publications that Spaniards refuse a siesta because of accelerated rate of a life already last summer.

Clearly, as Russia not an exception. Acceleration is especially sharply felt in large cities. "It is final, rate of a life increases, - the assistant to the general director of the company" Empire of shots "Alexander Baranjuk speaks. - the competition in the market Grows, the problems put by a management grow, necessity constantly to improve quality of given services, to increase a company share in the market. So constant acceleration of rate of a life not to avoid, if you wish to survive in business".

Time runs faster

"Time - very conditional size, and its rate depends on set of circumstances, - the chief executive of company Begin Group Maryanna Slivnitskaja speaks. - And though often deficiency of time is connected with unreasoned distribution of resources or the bad time management, nevertheless much it is valid it does not suffice". As she said, even if they correctly would distribute work, had enough of subordinates and fine sensation of time, all the same it would not suffice. Simply they would have a real possibility to make for the company more if in days there were at least 25 or 26 hours. " It is possible to judge, that with the advent of a mobile communication, the Internet, time e-mail should be more for work, - the PR-manager of the company "Empire of shots" Olga Fedorova speaks. - However it all the same catastrophically does not suffice. In a pursuit of career, money the person tries to work, study, attends in parallel any courses, conferences and so on. That is it hammers in the working day against the stop ". As she said, on a question why the such occurs, many will answer -" Such time, wish to live, be able to spin ".

"It seems to me, rate of a life increases together with career growth, - Maryanna Slivnitskaja speaks. - the quantity of duties increases, because of that that they become very different, it is more difficult to be switched, there is a sensation, that absolutely be in time nothing. But the most important thing, in my opinion, is an increase in responsibility. If on initial positions risk of that you something is not in time, small, on top positions it absolutely critical. I think, the person has not time to make about the same part of affairs, but on supervising positions it becomes absolutely inadmissible".

It is necessary to be slowed down?

It is curious, that sociologists any more say the first decade that rate of a life of the modern person is unnatural. At recent international conference in Oxford with an appeal to "brake" two lecturers - Charles Onore and Berry Schwarz have acted at once. They are authors of books on a theme "life delays".

Than does not arrange scientists modern rate of human existence? The matter is that, from the point of view of cynical social anthropologists, on any kind development two factors influence. An interspecific and intraspecific competition. However the person has superseded for a long time already all other predators, has reduced influence of environment to a minimum and now competes to itself. The author of this idea Konrad Lorentz has compared rate of a life of modern people to plumage of paradise birds - freakish, but absolutely not functional. The inner sanctum of modern business - idea of achievement of success - is no more than an illustration of this thesis. We simply compete with each other and we spend the most part of time for the proof of the solvency. At the expense of it rate of a life also grows.

And practice confirms this conclusion. Time most part on work is absorbed by absolutely unproductive dialogue with associates. For example, having spent miniinterrogation among the colleagues, Olga Fedorova has found out, that "time most part is taken away by empty conversations, inefficient meetings and excessive reports".

"My brain has fallen asleep, and I could not wake him"

Not a secret, that rather extended though and not quite ethic way to correct balance between work and private life - to affect the patient. Last week рекрутинговый portal Carrer Builder has published results of curious research how it is frequent employees of the American companies are not for work, explaining it ostensibly problems with health.

As it has appeared, 35 % of working Americans resorted to this method throughout last 12 months, and every tenth did it some times. The main reason of a deceit of the employer careless employees named an urgent need in time for the decision of personal problems. The second and third places have occupied more prosaic reasons: "has overslept" and "necessity of rest".

Researchers also have collected a small collection of the most exotic explanations of the shirked workers. Among them:

"Has not come for work because I has died обезьянка",

"Could not find boots",

"The cat has broken my alarm clock",

"Has forgotten what day of week",

"Someone poured a drug to me in a glass",

"Has forgotten, that at me today wedding",

"All night long could not fall asleep because of ghosts in my room",

"I was bitten by a cow. It was necessary to go to the doctor",

"My brain has fallen asleep, and I could not wake him".

Why we are in time nothing

Unproductive dialogue and absence of clearness in work - here the reasons killing third of time which we spend on work. These data have been received by corporation Microsoft as a result of complete recently world research.

The minimum of 30 % of working hours is used inefficiently. Average working week in the world makes 45 hours. And 17 hours from them participants of the research carried out recently consider spent for nothing, or "unproductive". The reasons leading to it, are uniform for the companies of all world. As has shown research, these are indistinctly formulated problems, a lack of dialogue of a command and inefficient meetings. On it have informed 31 % of respondents. Other widespread reasons of decrease in efficiency on work: indistinct priorities (31 %) and "putting off on then" (29 %).

The most important enemy of efficiency researchers named inefficient meetings and meetings for which it is spent on the average for 5-6 hours per week. According to interrogation data, 69 % of all meetings are inefficient. (In the USA - 5,5 hours and 71 % accordingly).

It is curious, that a special difference in how waste time of the man and the woman, research has not revealed. The average factor of productive working hours of employees-women is equal 72 %, and employees-men - 71 %.

Thus only 34 % of respondents have informed, that use tools and techniques of effective time management. In this connection 60 % of participants of interrogation have declared, what not in a condition to support balance between professional work and private life, and all working hours are productive to use inability aggravate this sensation.

More than half of respondents (55 %) have declared, that their efficiency directly is connected with work on the computer. On the average each of participants of interrogation receives 42 electronic letters in day. It is curious, that on it authors of interrogation stop. And it it is no wonder, considering, that interrogation spent corporations Microsoft. After all many researches spent earlier, show that e-mail also can apply for a rank of one of basic "devourers" of time.

In the comments many analysts add, that researchers from Microsoft have forgotten to mention one very important reason of decrease in efficiency of work of employees at office - unfairly active use Internet Explorer. After all the minimum is spent for work with e-mail 1-2 hours per day. Thus that more than half of letters appear an unnecessary spam.

38 000 respondents have taken part in global online interrogation from more than two hundred countries of the world. For the majority of them the main task - to cope today with constantly increasing working loading and balance maintenance between professional work and private life, authors of research mark.

The cooler stimulates dialogue in office

About changes in the organisations employees of the American companies learn from the colleagues, instead of from a management more often. To such unfavourable conclusions experts of research centre International Survey Research located in Chicago after the interrogation spent among 16 thousand of workers from 104 American companies have come. Despite special attention to a problem of internal communications and huge number of the courses devoted to it for managers, the situation leaves much to be desired. According to the received data, informal information channels are the main source of the information for 68 % of workers of official bodies, 65 % of employees of the companies of high technologies and 46 % of workers of financial sector.

More often, it is spoken in the report, employees receive the important information on changes in the organisation in the course of informal dialogue with the colleagues. And as information channels participants of interrogation mentioned "hearings", "gossips" and "conversations about the device with potable water" more often. How much such way of internal communications promotes efficiency of work - other question.

"Time absorbers"

The statistics shows, what the head spends 80 % of working hours, communicating with the employees, whether partners we etc. Reflect on that, how much effectively our dialogue? Probably, it was possible to spend for the decision of those or other problems of time less, more intensively and it is compressed on time to solve a task in view.

As it is frequent to us there is no time for something important, for a long time the conceived... Our working day gets the menacing time sizes, and all of us test deficiency of time is more often. Where our such expensive time can leave? How to make, that it became more? Experts of treningovo-consulting company "Mobile" suggest to begin with the analysis of "time Absorbers". In the list resulted more low, the list of the most widespread reasons of time losses is given. You can note "tick" those from them which face more often than others.

It is necessary to open a window simply

The research spent by British company Office Angels (OAs) in which office 1000 workers have taken part, has shown, that the lunch break of 70 % of employees lasts less than hour. Thus 55 % of workers prefer to have a bite directly on a workplace.

According to 69 % interrogated, as a result of insufficient midday rest they so strongly get tired, that they should cancel the various actions planned for evening. 73 % have specified in recession of energy in second half of day which 30 minutes of working hours daily lead to loss approximately.

"Probably, employers should watch that employees had a rest from work. Though the law according to which employees are obliged to have a rest not less than hour, does not exist. It should raise their productivity and lower number of the absence from work connected with excessive weariness and stresses", - speaks Адриан Марлоу from company Lawspeed which are engaged in the labour right.

For maintenance of due rest within the working day it is possible:

1. To do small breaks, at least to drink to tea;

2. To distribute tasks within day so that it was not necessary to spend all the day long behind the computer;

3. To walk on fresh air during a lunch break;

4. Regularly to air office.


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