Work, the wasted years

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Years of your life have been lost to utterly pointless activities at work. Here’s how to save more time

Save time by listening to our audio articles as you multitaskA new study, by academics from the Maryland and Delaware Enterprise University Partnership , applies this approach to the workplace. By conducting a time-use survey of 5,000 office workers in America and Britain, the researchers identify the number of minutes that people waste on pointless activities each working day.

The gestation period of a goat is around 145 days. Which is also how long the average worker spends logging into things during his or her working life. Security concerns mean that some time is bound to be absorbed in this way. But months are wasted trying to remember passwords, entering them wrongly or updating them. Just as much time is spent waiting for something to happen, a great economy-wide period of vacant staring at a screen.

A bundle of “tidying up” activities absorbs over four months of the average worker’s life. Deleting emails takes up about six weeks of your life. Clicking on Slack channels to read through messages that are not meant for you, or clearing notifications on your phone screen for articles that you will never look at: tasks like these each eat up several days.

 

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Yeah, mostly logging in to tikok at work

I'm a stickler with my passwords. I never lose them. Meanwhile I've seen various coworkers, often the same ones repeatedly losing hours of productivity because they forget their passwords. 🤷‍♂️

Again? This must be the fourth time I've seen this article tweeted. Stop spamming.

He retired on his seat before his death

Always on point. Keeping it one huned since inception.

If we add up every second the we opened our emails or how many times we keep logging in alone it will be about an hour a day, so imagine how much time you have wasted! That's from personal experience just saying

I have my feed set to most recent. I have seen this article at least 2 other times. Why do you keep tweeting the same thing over and over again?

Retirement, the lost years?

Quite shocking that correcting typos counts for an avg of 20 minutes daily: it is 180 days (180!!!) over a 45-year career. Grammarly thx to exist 😅

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And what about the pleasure to leave with a pleasent job?

The economist is now r/Anti Work? That's so 2020s

Nothing to save while you owe everything .

$EPZM $CURI are going up, do not miss

Economist pushing anti work agenda on the young. Globalist prep for AI and UBI.

Meetings shaved at least 8 years off my life.

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