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Are Your Employees Losing Working Time to Office Inefficiencies?
 If
your business is based in an office location
then you need to consider whether you are
doing everything possible to prevent your
employees working time being affected.
Over the course of an average day, your
employees lose working time to distractions,
meetings and faults with office equipment.
In fact, a survey by BACS Payment Schemes
Limited has shown that the average office
employee loses up to 3 hours of potentially
productive time every day, over a third of
an average 8 hour day.
The biggest cause of time loss was office
technology; with problems like slow
computers, crashing computers and printer
jams wasting up to 48 minutes a day. Extra
technology support can cost a reasonable
amount, but could save you money in the long
term by reducing employee hours lost, and
improving morale by reducing errors and
fixing those that appear quickly.
Dealing with colleagues was the second
biggest time waster, losing the average
employee up to 34 minutes a day. Unnecessary
phone calls and conference calls lose an
average 26 minutes a day, while attending
unnecessary meetings loses an average of 23
minutes per day.
Almost three quarters of employees surveyed
said that unnecessary emails were
frustrating, as did 88% of employees for
unwanted telephone calls; while an alarming
23% of workers were considering changing job
to get away from the daily barrage of
unwanted communication. This demonstrates
the value of good spam email blocking, and
that registering to prevent unwanted phone
calls with the Telephone Preference Service
can help your employee’s morale as well as
freeing up time.
While it is impossible for any business to
be 100% efficient all of the time, these
results show clearly how your business can
benefit by working to prevent disruptions
and technology problems.
A range of articles on managing employees
are available from our Personal Development
portal here.
For more information on technology and IT
for your business visit our Internet and
Technology portal here.
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