Consider the economic impact if businesses could reclaim an hour of productivity a day, per worker. It’s possible, but it appears most companies are clueless or could “care-less.”
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced today that he is poised to deliver 20,000 pink slips to state employees. Techcrunch.com’s layoff tracker shows that 300,000 people have been laid of since October in the technology sector alone.
These are truly scary economic times – but there is a cure that just about every business is ignoring. The reclaimed productivity comes from changed e-mail habits. You think I kid?
With better e-mail habits to help combat information overload, companies can easily save one hour of productive time per employee per day. And saving money means saving jobs: for a 20-person office at an average salary of $20/hour, that’s $2000 per week, and $104,000 per year. That’s the annual salary of 2.5 employees in that same office.
See our prior post featuring the information overload calculator. Just make sure you’re sitting down when you run the calc.
Instead of thinking about pink slips, why not focus on getting 10%-20% more out of each worker????!!!! THAT’S what will re-energize the economy!
