Time Wasting Activities within the Workplace: Don’t Be Apart of Them

Abstract

If you work in an office for a small or large organization, you will notice managers, supervisors, and even your co-workers engaging in time-wasting activities during the day. Typical examples of such activities are talking around the water cooler spreading office gossip or sitting in non-pro-ductive meetings. These non-productive, time-wasting activities are common in the workplace. The objective of this article is to help you to identify time-wasting behaviors and what to do about them based on information gathered through observations in the workplace and recent research articles on the topic. In particular, the article identifies three areas of non-productivity such as preoccupation, attending useless meetings, and time-consuming communication unrelated to of-fice business. For both the manager, supervisor and individual worker identification and elimina-tion of the time-wasting activity can foster an organization that promotes efficiency and increases productivity with increase profitability.