Improve office efficiency
Apr 25 2005
More than two and a half hours a day are lost through technological and individual inefficiencies, adding up to around 80 days a year per employee.
These are the dramatic findings of research from BACS Payment Schemes, which interviewed over a thousand employees of small firms throughout the UK and found that PC problems, printer predicaments and colleague conflict are taking up massive proportions of the average working day.
Technology tops the list of time-wasting as slow and crashing computers combine with infuriating printer jams to cost each UK employee 48 minutes every day. Dealings with colleagues also feature heavily, wasting 34 minutes a day while needless phone calls (26 minutes), meetings (23 minutes), and emails (16 minutes) complete the top five.
"Most British workers are doing more than their contractual hours - the vast majority without overtime pay,” said psychologist Nicola Barber of the results. “By addressing inefficiencies some companies may be able to reduce the hours employees need to spend at work, and at the same time, keep the workforce happy and motivated."
BACS offers some tips to make the workplace more efficient.
(25/4/05)
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