http://www.emaildashboard.com/2006/08/email-work-is-real-work.html Driving email forward Tue, 13 May 2008 17:12:07 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.emaildashboard.com/2006/08/email-work-is-real-work.html/comment-page-1#comment-42 Deva Hazarika Thu, 03 Aug 2006 20:04:51 +0000 http://www.clearcontext.com/edblog/?p=69#comment-42 Brad, I think if more people were actually 60% productive, a lot more would get done in the workplace. Brad,
I think if more people were actually 60% productive, a lot more would get done in the workplace.

]]> http://www.emaildashboard.com/2006/08/email-work-is-real-work.html/comment-page-1#comment-41 Brad Meador Thu, 03 Aug 2006 16:41:12 +0000 http://www.clearcontext.com/edblog/?p=69#comment-41 Interesting point. When I was consulting at a large cable operator, I was responsible for building out project plans and managing both internal employees and external consultants. Though I had several internal employees who were "dedicated" to my projects, I was instructed when building project plans to assume that internal employees were only available 5 hours/day. The other three hours/day were to be used on this Ad-hoc work you discuss, including meetings, administrative duties, etc.. On the one hand I thought it was progressive that they understood where their employee's time was really spent, on the other it was shocking to see that they endorsed the fact that their folks were only slightly more than 60% productive on the tasks they were assigned. Interesting point. When I was consulting at a large cable operator, I was responsible for building out project plans and managing both internal employees and external consultants. Though I had several internal employees who were “dedicated” to my projects, I was instructed when building project plans to assume that internal employees were only available 5 hours/day. The other three hours/day were to be used on this Ad-hoc work you discuss, including meetings, administrative duties, etc.. On the one hand I thought it was progressive that they understood where their employee’s time was really spent, on the other it was shocking to see that they endorsed the fact that their folks were only slightly more than 60% productive on the tasks they were assigned.

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