WHERE QUALITY TIME COMES FROM

WHERE QUALITY TIME COMES FROM

A survey of 300 mothers revealed they spend more time with their children, but in order to do so, they sleep 5 or 6 hours less each week, have 12 fewer hours of free time and tend to do less housework. (Source: St. Petersburg Times, March 28, 2000)

STRESS AND ABSENTEEISM

A survey of HR managers at 305 U.S. companies found stress has caused unscheduled absences to triple during the period from 1995 to 1999. Source: The Emotional Tightrope by Louisa Wah, Management Review, January 2000)

INTERRUPTIONS ARE THE NORM

On a typical day, the average office worker sees or receives: 52 telephone calls, 18 pieces of inter-office mail, 15 faxes, 18 pieces of mail, 22 voice-mail messages, 11 sticky notes, 30 electronic mail messages, 3 cell phone calls, 10 telephone message slips, 4 pages on a beeper and 7 overnight packages or courier delivered items. (Source: The Toronto Star, July 19, 1998)

TIMELY QUOTE

It’s easier to face difficult tasks that to avoid them.

 

WORKING SMARTER AND FASTER

How fast is too fast? Norman Bodek, in an article reprinted in Quality Digest (Jan/87 issue) illustrates that breakneck speeds do not result in quality workmanship. He uses the example of a person attempting to draw a straight line freehand. Try it. Draw the first one very quickly, the next one quickly, but not as fast as the first, and draw the last one very slowly. The second line you draw is probably the straightest indicating that working quickly is the best way to proceed. Bodek suggests that if we go too fast, we become exhausted and if we go too slowly the tedium is stressful.

TIME IS RELATIVE

Two weeks on vacation is not the same as two weeks on a diet.