My Piggy Bank .. ..

This is part 2 of my previous post - The 3/2 rule of employee productivity.

This is a story that someone sent round (whose name I've forgotten)

"Each day, when I come home from work, the first thing I do is empty my pockets onto the kitchen counter and throw my spare change in a bowl.

At the end of the day, I have only a few cents.   At the end of the week, I have a few bucks.   At the end of the month, maybe twenty or thirty bucks.   But, at the end of the year, suddenly I have a lot of money.    Just this year, I cashed in over $600.00 in spare pocket change.   

Why do I tell you this?  Because each day, your Information Workers spend 15 minutes opening up all of the applications it will take to do their job that day.   Each day someone spends 5 minutes walking across the office, looking for a co-worker, only to find out that they’re not there.   Then, another 5 minutes to find out where they are, when they’re coming back, etc.  And each day, your Information Workers spend 5 minutes here, or 10 minutes there, waiting for search results, switching between applications, or re-focusing on their task after an interruption.    

These little bits of time are productivity “leaks” in your day.  They’re small, but if we can:

Improve those business processes by using a portal to load one dashboard quickly, rather than taking the time to load several applications individually…

Use Office Communicator to collaborate with our co-workers and locate them quickly, without leaving our desks…

Configure our searches by audience and/or relevancy, so that we can find more relevant information quickly…

IF we can do these things, then over the course of the day, the week, the month, and the year, you will see those tiny bits of productivity add up. Think of the business impact when every individual on your team performs even 10% more efficiently in everything that they do!  Wouldn’t this be a great thing for your business?"

So could we make a user 2%/10 minutes a day more productive (if not more) by getting the right software+processes+training?

And would it be cheaper than a 500 user company employing 10 new people?

I'd wager yes.

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 10, 2008
  Very nice post, made me think about all of those same moments trying to look for people and wondering why we dont have office communicator or eqiv. at my work