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Cheers, this is my first post about my work experience in India versus abroad. Its about time utilization.
I will try to write a few lines about how I end up spending my time while working in India while how I spent it while working in Singapore.
Well, here in India, we do enter time-sheet for say 9 hrs including 1 hr lunch, the question whether we work for so much time really has been around since I have started working (around 6 years back). I had always questioned do we end up working for 8 hrs (doing nothing personal work during this time). Well sorry to say the answer is a BIG NO NO...
Its sad to admit, we do all sorts of CRAPOLA in the allotted time.
Here is a list of things that stops us from putting 8 hours flat out towards work.
1. Travelling to office is more like a pain in the ass.
How can you expect us to start working as soon as we reach office, when we have spent so much of time traveling, people tend to relax for a while after reaching office, so there goes some time out of your hours work. [ Not all people travel long distances to work, but there are people who travel long distances and one among them is me.]
Working abroad - Will update shortly..
2. Reaching office late due to traffic -
Well all of them if not everyday, someday atleast would encounter some traffic snarls while coming to office. I do encounter it everyday, even though its 7 30 am in the morning. This in turn upsets our mood at workplace and it takes time to set it right. So there goes some time out of your 8 hours.
Working abroad - Will update shortly..
3. Making weekend plans.
Weekend starts on Friday evening But unfortunately whilst working in India, I have always felt, we start planning for weekend on Thursday only. Hence you can take for granted that some Fridays of the year are rest assured an UTTER WASTE. ZERO productivity. We end up wasting Thursday as well.
Working abroad - Well, while working abroad I would have been engrossed so much work that, there is no time to even think of weekend. I enjoyed work so much that, weekend takes a back seat. So there is less chances of taking time out to plan for a weekend .
4. Coffee breaks.
Coffee breaks are the so called reasons to bond with your team members. But unfortunately we end up not only bonding with team mates talking about work related issues we are facing, but also end up talking so much about personal stuffs that we lose a pretty huge amount of time.
While working in Singapore, I tried so many times to take a longer break, but honestly speaking everytime I failed, either due to
1. lack of friends.
2. loads of deliverables.
3. miscellaneous reasons.
I ended up with coffee breaks less than 10 minutes. So losing out on time due to coffee breaks was the last on the list while working abroad.
5. Meetings.
One more brilliant way to waste productive time in a LEGAL way, no one can question you about the meeting, nor ANYONE has the GUTS to ask MINUTES OF MEETING. So anyone and everyone is free to attend a meeting or jump into a meeting room to do some discussion to pass time, knowing very well that there wont be any OUTCOME of this meeting.
While working abroad, I did work as a consultant and by the way meetings were so hard to come by, All interactions were work related and result oriented, there is no question of BEATING AROUND THE BUSH, trying to waste time as we end up doing here.
Cheers,
Cheers, this is my first post about my work experience in India versus abroad. Its about time utilization.
I will try to write a few lines about how I end up spending my time while working in India while how I spent it while working in Singapore.
Well, here in India, we do enter time-sheet for say 9 hrs including 1 hr lunch, the question whether we work for so much time really has been around since I have started working (around 6 years back). I had always questioned do we end up working for 8 hrs (doing nothing personal work during this time). Well sorry to say the answer is a BIG NO NO...
Its sad to admit, we do all sorts of CRAPOLA in the allotted time.
Here is a list of things that stops us from putting 8 hours flat out towards work.
1. Travelling to office is more like a pain in the ass.
How can you expect us to start working as soon as we reach office, when we have spent so much of time traveling, people tend to relax for a while after reaching office, so there goes some time out of your hours work. [ Not all people travel long distances to work, but there are people who travel long distances and one among them is me.]
Working abroad - Will update shortly..
2. Reaching office late due to traffic -
Well all of them if not everyday, someday atleast would encounter some traffic snarls while coming to office. I do encounter it everyday, even though its 7 30 am in the morning. This in turn upsets our mood at workplace and it takes time to set it right. So there goes some time out of your 8 hours.
Working abroad - Will update shortly..
3. Making weekend plans.
Weekend starts on Friday evening But unfortunately whilst working in India, I have always felt, we start planning for weekend on Thursday only. Hence you can take for granted that some Fridays of the year are rest assured an UTTER WASTE. ZERO productivity. We end up wasting Thursday as well.
Working abroad - Well, while working abroad I would have been engrossed so much work that, there is no time to even think of weekend. I enjoyed work so much that, weekend takes a back seat. So there is less chances of taking time out to plan for a weekend .
4. Coffee breaks.
Coffee breaks are the so called reasons to bond with your team members. But unfortunately we end up not only bonding with team mates talking about work related issues we are facing, but also end up talking so much about personal stuffs that we lose a pretty huge amount of time.
While working in Singapore, I tried so many times to take a longer break, but honestly speaking everytime I failed, either due to
1. lack of friends.
2. loads of deliverables.
3. miscellaneous reasons.
I ended up with coffee breaks less than 10 minutes. So losing out on time due to coffee breaks was the last on the list while working abroad.
5. Meetings.
One more brilliant way to waste productive time in a LEGAL way, no one can question you about the meeting, nor ANYONE has the GUTS to ask MINUTES OF MEETING. So anyone and everyone is free to attend a meeting or jump into a meeting room to do some discussion to pass time, knowing very well that there wont be any OUTCOME of this meeting.
While working abroad, I did work as a consultant and by the way meetings were so hard to come by, All interactions were work related and result oriented, there is no question of BEATING AROUND THE BUSH, trying to waste time as we end up doing here.
Cheers,
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