In today’s world, there are far too many distractions at work. From social media to socializing, time wasters are more prevalent in the office than ever before. Pausing and evaluating what is impacting your productivity and how you can change that, will help you limit your bad habits or avoid them altogether. Here are five time wasters that can impact your productivity at work and how you can avoid them.
Overuse of social media, email, and Internet
Overuse of the Internet at work is a huge time waster, especially with social media sites and email being used more in the workplace than ever before. Spending time on social media sites can take away lots of time to your day and can impact your productivity. After long periods of using social media and checking your email, it is much harder to get back into a workflow. Take some time to evaluate when you can use social media and if it will impact your workflow for the next several hours.
Non-essential meetings with no objective
Meetings that are not essential to your daily projects and tasks can waste immense amounts of time and impact your schedule for the rest of the day. If there is no objective to a meeting and the matter at hand could have been discussed over email, spending lots of time on it won’t help you or your company to achieve its daily goals.
Evaluate which meetings are the most crucial to your goals and plan them accordingly. If you absolutely must plan a meeting, make sure there is a clear objective and everyone knows what is expected of him or her.
Multi-tasking
Multi-tasking may actually seem like the solution to wasting time, however, doing too much at once can sometimes be worse than doing nothing at all. Multitasking can not only degrade the quality of your work but may also force you to spend time going back and fixing mistakes you may have made as a result of focusing on too many things.
Thinking you have lots of time
While there are many hours in a day, keep in mind not all of it is spent doing work. You may take a break or go out to lunch at some point. Thinking you have lots of time, procrastinating, or not taking advantage of the limited time you have may severely impact your productivity. Instead, come up with tasks you must complete every hour and stay focused on your goal for that day. It will allow you to manage your time better and will give you a clearer perspective on which tasks need the most time.
Socializing
This is usually the culprit if you work in a more creative environment, particularly because there is more discussion about projects and tasks. However, it can sometimes lead to socializing, which can impact your productivity. This can range from employees socializing to lax management that allows for too much socializing. Even so, it still impacts your ability to do work. Socializing at work can be a good thing, but keep in mind that work also needs to be done as well.
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