THE INCREDIBLY SHRINKING WORK HOUR
Time is a precious human resource. If you can measure it,
you can manage it. So how can you find more of it?
THE CHANGING FACE OF TIME & THE WORKDAY
1450 A.D.
1848
Medieval farmers and villagers tracked
their time by the sun using bell towers to
recognize breaks including rest and meals.
1890
French workers won the 12-hour day
following the February Revolution of
1848. Early trade unions were established
that resulted in shorter working days and
improved workplace conditions.
1810 A.D.
During the PreIndustrial Era,
working 10 to 16 hours, six days
a week was not uncommon.
1866
The Factory Act of 1833
was passed to limit the
workday for children
in factories. Children
between the ages of 9–13
were limited to eight
hours a day.
Output per hour worked (productivity) of
the United States worker tripled the 1900’s.
2005
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor
Statistics, 10.3 million workers in the U.S.
(7.4% of the US workforce) were categorized
as independent contractors.
1938
The International Workingmen’s
Association took up the demand for
an eight-hour day at its convention
in Geneva, establishing legal
limitations to the workday.
1833 A.D.
1990
The AFL meeting in St Louis established
May 1, 1890 as the day that American
workers should work no more than eight
hours per day thus starting the tradition
of May Day.
The Fair Labor Standards Act
established a 44 hour work week,
overtime pay, and the type of work
and hours for children under 18.
2010
One Day a Week of “Virtual Work.” The
Internet has opened up many freelance
opportunities, expanded available markets,
and contributed to service sector growth
in many economies. In 2010, 13.4 million
employees in the U.S. alone, worked at
least one day per week virtually.
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THE WORKPLACE IS GETTING FASTER
For hundreds of thousands of years, our day-to-day tasks—building a fire, hunting a meal,
baking bread, milking a cow—have been a series of minute actions that flow seamlessly and
habitually, into the next; this is hard-wired in us. It’s only in the past 40 or so years that we’ve
imposed an entirely new way of processing information on our unsuspecting brains.
1953 Numerical Machine Tools—the first robots
1959 Photocopying at 100 pages a minute
speedy
1977 Integrated Circuits & personal computing
1973 Barcode Readers enable scanning
1980 Cell Phones invent mobility
on-the-job
31%
1984 PDAs and Palmtop Devices at hand
advances
( 2013 )
1989 Birth of the World Wide Web
1992 CU-SeeMe sparks video meetups
2009 Notebooks out ship desktops
Entire world predicted to be
online by 2020.
—Dr. Eric Schmidt
2010 Internet Users—1,800 million
BUSINESS EVOLVES FOR VELOCITY
INSTA-BUSINESS
AGILE BUSINESS
SAME-DAY DELIVERY &
Think Zazzle or Spreadshirt.
Working in “sprints” not days
BUSINESS BOTS
Think Personalized. Think
and 15 minute “scrums” not
Robots picking products off shelves.
Business “On Demand.”
meetings.
Same day delivery arrives.
JUST-IN-TIME BUSINESS
LEAN BUSINESS
Deliveries scheduled to sync with
The model: a perfect value
production.
creation process with zero waste.
DIGITAL OVERTIME & EMPLOYEES
22%
46%
are expected to respond
to work email when
they’re not at work.
50%
check work email on
sick days.
34%
check work email on
the weekends.
check work email while
on vacation.
Internet Access Increasing
Work Performance and
Productivity Since 2000
“Time is the scarcest
resource and unless it is
managed, nothing else
will be managed.”
Peter F. Drucker
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SPENDING YEARS ON THAT PHONE
The average cellphone owner
spends about 90 minutes per
day texting, browsing, gaming,
on email and, oh yeah, talking.
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That’s 23 days per year—
or 3.9 years in the average
lifetime—spent tapping at
a device.
years
THE COST OF LOST TIME
A Wasted Ten
Hours
What is the cost for companies
whose employees cannot
account for 6% (or 10 hours)
of their time each month?
POSITION
SALARY
WASTE/MONTHWASTE/YEAR
Software Developer
$72,000
$346.15
$4,153.85
Financial Advisor
$69,100
$332.21
$3,986.54
Tax Accountant
$53,800
$258.65
$3,103.85
HR Generalist
$48,400
$232.69
$2,792.31
Graphic Designer
$47,300
$227.40
$2,728.85
WORKDAY TIME LOST & FOUND
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10% overtime
5
25%
benefits
minutes is
1%
of 8 hrs
8 Hour Workday
1% = $36,000
Amount saved in
5 minutes of labor
Even better:
$12/hr
salary
Productivity improvements of
15-30%
$36,000
translate to potential
savings of up to
Typical Labor Costs
(per employee/year)
$3.6M
Annual payroll of company
with 100 employees
$1,000,000
based on 100 employees
TIME TRACKING HARNESSES PRODUCTIVITY
“The bad news is time flies. The good news
is you’re the pilot.”
Michael Altshuler
A New Era for Employers
and Employees
Time for Upward Mobility
Ease of use and access are the keys to harnessing
8:00AM
time and talent via time tracking. For example,
Time Card
In the new age of Cloud
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Computing, portable time and
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and monitor employees’ time,
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attendance and performance.
Notes
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TSheets employee time tracking software lets you
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start your day to the sound of “Applause,” then
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unleashed.
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SOURCES: “The Need for Speed,” Neilsen Norman Group; “Web Stress, A Wake Up Call for Business,” Foviance
for CA Wiley;“The 2008 Digital Future Project from 2000 to 2007” USC Annenberg School Center for the Digital
Future, March 2009; “Kelly Global Workforce Index, “ Kelly Services, as cited in Press Release 2009 Mobile Phones,
PDAs, Laptop computers; Money Factoids, http://business.time.com; Wasting Time at Work 2012, Salary.com;
“Time Clock, Timesheet, Time & Attendance,Time Tracking Software,” Wikimedia Foundation, LLC
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