Administrative chit-chat. Wasting time... Dr. Hussam Youssef

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Everything in our lives is calculated and measured by time, and the hands of time. The accomplishment of works and projects is related to those elapsed hours and minutes, and depends on the ability to manage time, success or failure or even the completion of various works and tasks, in institutions and organizations, and on the personal level as well.

Unconsidered meetings that have not received an appropriate amount of preparation are one of the scourges and causes of time loss, especially if these meetings are not of a fixed duration, clear objectives, themes and ideas, and in light of the lack of clarity of visions and strategies, and administrative confusion at all levels in the Arab world, it is necessary to adjust the timing of meetings to ensure that everyone is committed to attending on time without delay.

Experts have discovered that if a meeting is only five minutes late, it costs the company losses, especially if we know that large companies conduct annual meetings with a total number of hours up to 300 thousand, and senior executives consume more than 7000 hours in their meetings, which are taken out of work time, which leads to 15% of the total time of any organization is wasted in meetings alone.

Despite the extreme importance of time at the corporate level, most of them do not have the appropriate mechanism or the ability to monitor how managers and employees spend their time during official working hours, and this can only be done through monitoring, which is one of the main pillars of business management in general, and monitoring comes to give an indication of the extent to which subordinates respond to work policy and production plans and check every detail of the entire process.

Unfortunately, regulators only monitor financial aspects and audit accounts, without taking into account the aspects of time conservation, which prompted some companies to divide offices by using glass panels so that everyone can see each other, and others have resorted to installing surveillance cameras not to monitor employees, but to monitor the workflow.

The monitoring authorities, unfortunately, monitor the financial aspects and audit accounts only, without taking into account the aspects of preserving time.

The doors of waste in companies are many, even countless, and there are aspects created by lazy employees who do not want to perform their work, so it is necessary when this is discovered to be addressed quickly, as preventing harm is prior to bringing benefit.