majorbloodnock (10/11/2012)
Seems to me a classic case of mistakenly measuring productivity in terms of hours of work. I prefer to measure against results.There are people in my department who spend hours seemingly slacking, but produce far more results from their "half day" than some others who're keeping their noses to the grindstone from the time they arrive to the time they leave. I know which I prefer to have working with or for me.
Totally agree with that.
What really annoys me when it comes to wasted time though, is meetings that are delayed at short notice. You know the kind of thing. You don't want to start a new task as you have a meeting in 10 minutes, they five minutes after it's due to start you're told it'll be in half an hour. Rude, really annoying, and a terrible waste of time.