If you look at your own day at the office, don’t these office maths make sense?

8:00am
• Enter the office building.
• Drop your stuff in your office and head to the coffee maker.
• Chat with a co-worker about last night’s game
• Make coffee – it’s already empty
• Look for creamer – where is the damn creamer?
• Go to the supplies cabinet. Find old creamer and dump it in your coffee. Gag a few times and complain to everyone around you.
• Get sidetracked on the way back to your office. A co-worker wants you to check out their new truck. “Nice wheels” you say.

9:00am
• Plop down in a meeting.
• What’s this meeting about, anyway?
• Listen with one ear while daydreaming about the weekend.

9:30
• Update meeting participants about your project (START THE CLOCK)

9:35
• Go back to daydreaming. (STOP THE CLOCK)

10:00
• Go to the bathroom
• Run to next meeting

10:05
• Chat with co-workers while waiting for everyone else to show up

10:15
• Start meeting
• Solve issue with last night’s logistics snafu (START THE CLOCK)
• Give update to team on upcoming shipment

10:45
• Blackberry rings – step out of meeting to take a call from child’s school. (STOP THE CLOCK)

11:00
• Go to your office

11:05
• Begin looking at emails (START THE CLOCK)

11:10
• Get interrupted by manager – asks you what you think about this crazy weather. (STOP THE CLOCK)

11:30
• Head to non-working lunch

1:00
• Back in the office.

In a Traditional Workplace, it looks like that dude already put in 5 hours of work!

In a ROWE, all  that dude did was put in exactly 40 minutes of work and wasted 4 hours and 20 minutes displaying presenteeism.

Next time someone says, “I put in 60 hours last week!” you can roll your eyes, because they are probably using Traditional Workplace Math.

via ROWE