American Companies Lose 86 Workdays A Year Being Unproductive

Friday, March 1, 2002

Ve Ugoe |S eet Busit %% Interhome ness re Ne WA y  NEws Eh Ss SS 2A 1A InterimSysim Wt rT3 Bobi  1A mreelUorp 134 + N ytes ye irs 4 14% Mrsh rt Ss Americn Compnies Lose 86 Workdys A Yer Being Unproductive (NAPSA)—When mngers Resons for Wsted Workdys in the US don’t mnge, workers often produce less. Tht’s  key finding of  recent study on globl productivity nd lost employeetime. This second nnul study observed the mngeril prctices nd operting systems used by over 1,350 mngers nd workers of lrge globl compnies from the U.S., Germny, Austri, Austrli, 2002 Totl Workdys Wsted = 86 7] o e A Frnce, U.K., nd South Afric. percent since the previous survey. The verge rte of productivity ws 59 percent, with 92 working dys lost per person, per compny, per yer. This is five fewer dys lost thn in 2001. According to this yer’s study, the key contributing cuses behind lower worker productivity re: * insufficient plnning nd control, * indequte mngement, nd * poor working morle. According to Aln Steelmn, executive vice president, North Americ, of Proudfoot Consulting—the firm tht conducts the yerly study—mngers just do not spend enough time thinking hed. “Insted,” sid Steelmn, “most mngers spend fr too much time putting out fires tht proper plnning could hve prevented.” Steelmn dvoctes the mn- 43 Hecdud The study lso found tht U.S. compnies work t n verge rte of 62 percent of totl productivity nd wste 86 workdys  yer. Germny wsthe only country with  higher rte of productivity. There, workers were productive 63 percent of the time, wsting 83 workdys yer. Globlly, there ws ctully  modest rise in productivity of two - @ Insufficient plnning nd control Indequte mngement Inppropritely qulified workforce IT relted problems Poor working morle Ineffective communiction A recent study clims tht U.S. workers wste 86 workdys  yer. gement principle of “pln your work, work your pln” s  wy mngers cn increse worker productivity. The study lso contends tht insufficient plnning nd control on the prt of mngers ccounted for 31 percent of the wsted dys. Wht the survey referred to s indequte mngement ws the second leding cuse of lost productivity, ccounting for 22 lost workdysper yer. Other fctors cited for low productivity were n inppropritely qulified workforce, informtion technology relted problems, poor working morle nd ineffective communiction between workers nd mngers.

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