Eight Days a Week

In today’s fast-paced society of e-mails, business lunches and conference calls, how many hours on average do your employees devote to the workday? Recent studies show that some employees have allowed workplace technology to eat away as much as 18 hours of their day.

So whatever happened to the 9 to 5 of yesteryear? Perhaps it has been lost in a more modern corporate world which spans time zones and finds employees absent from the nightly dinner table. “The long hours pose not only the risk of burnout and lost creativity, but ripple out to touch all facets of employees’ lives.”

While some companies are implementing strategies to capture employees’ lost time, it is still a relatively new matter. Dow Corning implemented a “no-meetings week” on a quarterly basis, which frees time typically utilized for internal company meetings, while IBM has put into practice “ThinkFridays,” a block of time void of nonessential interruptions.

Remember that the cell phones and laptops intended to make our lives easier can also offer a converse effect if not used within certain limitations.

Read the full article from The Wall Street Journal Online

Posted by Shelly Paul, Career Management Coordinator, The H.S. Group