Wasted time at work

For those that know me, know that I’m a big fan of productivity hacks at work. e.g. shortcuts to get things done faster, keyboard usage vs. mouse, apps to help you switch faster etc.

So it was with great pleasure that I saw an article in the Economist about how much time we actually waste on non-value adding things. e.g.

• We waste ~180 days in a typical career correcting typos
• ~145 days wasted in logging into things
• Deleting emails takes up ~6 weeks
• Shakespeare wrote “King Lear” in the time that an average office worker spend changing font sizes in their career

The solution is to have a bag of tricks to go faster. (If you have any of your favorites, I would love to hear about them).