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Leevi picked me and hubby from work. Emma stayed home all day, she has flu :(

I read an article about time thieves that lead to worn out employees. Finnish time management expert Marja Piri believes that people suffer from time thieves in the workplace.

The most common of these is repeated interruption. Work interruptions should be minimised. Workers should make good use of lunch and coffee breaks as they provide a much-needed lull during the busy work day.

If intuition is important in your work, all is lost if you stress yourself into having tunnel vision. Workers should regain their composure when they start feeling the heat of urgency. Her tip is that it's particularly when things get hectic that people should slow down and pay attention to their breathing. “If you plod home from work with nothing left in reserve, then you have to develop your own way of working,” Piri says.

Organisations should look to the manner in which they ask their workers to operate and not get stuck in stressful patterns that are harmful to employees. The best organisations are those that are prepared. A good supervisor sees situations clearly and encourages forward thinking, leading by example.

Presence of mind builds efficiency. The most effective employees are those who are capable of thinking about the past or the future. “You should follow, for a two-week period, where working time is actually spent and whether it goes towards the right things. This often gives rise to the observation that there is too much fragmentation in the working day and that there are issues that could be better suited to someone else’s work,” notes Piri.

On average, people are able to focus for one and a half hours at a time. Therefore, lunch and coffee breaks are needed. “If a task starts to niggle, take a break and walk around -- even for a moment -- so working efficiency is improved,” Piri advises.


Well written.


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