Tej Kohli recently met a friend who told him an interesting story about a Colleaguewho did nothing at the office. Same is the case with our Bosses, Tej Kohli helps you unravel the mystery of what do bosses do in office?
Read on to find out...
One of my friends was once in a job, who after spending five months in the office, couldn't exactly find out what a man in his office did. They would attend the meetings together, but he never say or do anything that indicated his professional role.
Never did they worked together on a project, though they exchanged polite greeting in corridors. When he asked his boss about the man's role, he got a confused look and a shrug. He asked many other people, but no one knew what that man with a vague job title spent his time doing.
Frankly, most of us are probably not aware of what other people are doing everyday. We might know what their responsibilities are, but how they spend their office hours is a mystery beyond comprehension. Tej Kohli says perhaps no one is on the receiving end of this suspicion more than our head honchos. Somewhere in the back of our mind we've all thought, “It's me who is doing all the work, but the CEO's bonus is bigger than my entire paycheck.”
Recently, Tej Kohli came across a paper by Harvard Business School related to 'What do CEOs Do??'
the carried out a research on 94 CEOs in Italian companies. They looked over their day to day responsibilities and here's what they found out:
CEOs spend 85 percent of their time with other people.
CEOs spend 60 percent of their workday in meetings.
Phone calls, conference calls and public events combined only comprise 25 percent of a CEO's day.
It implies that CEOs are rarely alone. Perhaps you will understand this if you think about how much strategizing and negotiating goes on among business leaders. This, of course, means the rest of us are doing the work that runs the business that our CEOs are always meeting about.
So, coming back to the question of, "What are you doing with your workday?" Apparently, we are wasting a lot of it, and not necessarily because we're lazy. In fact, we're trying to get things done and getting sidetracked by the small stuff that needs to be crossed off our to-do list.
Recently, a company specializing in business communications needs, looked at how the average worker spends his or her day in a small or midsize business. According to the survey workers spend 50 percent of their office hours on necessary, yet unproductive tasks, including routine communications and filtering incoming information and correspondence.
According to survey, a worker spends:
- 39 minutes each day duplicating communications via multiple channels (such as email and phone)
- 33 minutes attempting to schedule meetings
- 29 minutes dealing with unwanted communications, such as SPAM and unsolicited calls
- 67 minutes trying to find important information relevant to work
- 74 minutes trying to contact customers, partners or colleagues
Basing this on an eight-hour shift, you spend 50 percent of your day on the above tasks. Basically, trying to do something but not doing the actual task.
However, here I am not saying this is how an employee spends his typical day, because this this vary from one type of profession to another. But it surely seems to be a common trend for employees, asserts Tej Kohli.
