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I guess it is quite a long time I have not addressed the Blogvasion reader. Reasons are various but mostly, it is the lack of TIME. Actually, my last post was also concerning the issue of TIME, and that Time is money. This saying does not always mean that the more time you have the more money you earn. Sometimes it is quite possible that you hardly earn out even your salary, not to have hopes to earn much on your overtime, and why? I think the problem is in time management or in human resources management, requirements and given time to accomplish the work. It is no news giving multi task to the employees is widely spread way out in many companies. Well, it is OK until the workload is resistible and productivity level is also satisfactory.
So as I face this problem together with my coworkers, I reviewed the main time management tools. Among the first techniques, as I noticed is the recognition that you can’t do it all. And that’s all right because it might take you to some of the solutions instead of being in panic that you are tight in deadline or you will miss the deadline.
Another time management tool is to prioritize things you should do. That’s a really good technique and mostly used one by me during the working day. As soon something should be done as higher it is in the TO DO list. As the word DEADLINE has different meaning in our working environment… If YourDictionary.com defines Deadline as the latest time by which something must be done or completed, in our schedule in majority cases it means… Well, absolutely different thing. And that is that absorbs the quality of the work you do.
So… What is better to beg people to follow deadlines or to change the nature of your work, direction or…? Well, in my field, media, journalism, publishing, editing, translating … DEADLINE is the determining factor for the successful accomplishment of work. While searching for some answers to these problematic issues I came across a very interesting research results held by the Brookson Enterprise Freelance Fair, covered at SourceWire.com.
Seems that productivity that is the key benefit of freelance workers in the creative, digital, media and marketing sector shows 83%, when the productivity of full time staff is only 60%.
According to the SourceWire.com, Neil Lewis, organiser of the Enterprise Freelance Fairs said “this research backs up what we have been told anecdotally; namely, that the real benefit to businesses and entrepreneurs of freelance talent is the increased productivity coupled with very high levels of motivation.”
Lewis continued, “Cost saving is not the dominant benefit identified in this research. This means freelancers won’t cut your costs, but you can expect more productive results from the same expenditure”.
In the highly competitive world of high quality demands choice is always individual. According to the research results possible priority of managers, Full Time or Freelancer is more or less vivid. Though , choice also depends on the market needs. But let it be the topic of another post.
I guess it is quite a long time I have not addressed the Blogvasion reader. Reasons are various but mostly, it is the lack of TIME. Actually, my last post was also concerning the issue of TIME, and that Time is money. This saying does not always mean that the more time you have the more money you earn. Sometimes it is quite possible that you hardly earn out even your salary, not to have hopes to earn much on your overtime, and why? I think the problem is in time management or in human resources management, requirements and given time to accomplish the work. It is no news giving multi task to the employees is widely spread way out in many companies. Well, it is OK until the workload is resistible and productivity level is also satisfactory.
So as I face this problem together with my coworkers, I reviewed the main time management tools. Among the first techniques, as I noticed is the recognition that you can’t do it all. And that’s all right because it might take you to some of the solutions instead of being in panic that you are tight in deadline or you will miss the deadline.
Another time management tool is to prioritize things you should do. That’s a really good technique and mostly used one by me during the working day. As soon something should be done as higher it is in the TO DO list. As the word DEADLINE has different meaning in our working environment… If YourDictionary.com defines Deadline as the latest time by which something must be done or completed, in our schedule in majority cases it means… Well, absolutely different thing. And that is that absorbs the quality of the work you do.
So… What is better to beg people to follow deadlines or to change the nature of your work, direction or…? Well, in my field, media, journalism, publishing, editing, translating … DEADLINE is the determining factor for the successful accomplishment of work. While searching for some answers to these problematic issues I came across a very interesting research results held by the Brookson Enterprise Freelance Fair, covered at SourceWire.com.
Seems that productivity that is the key benefit of freelance workers in the creative, digital, media and marketing sector shows 83%, when the productivity of full time staff is only 60%.
According to the SourceWire.com, Neil Lewis, organiser of the Enterprise Freelance Fairs said “this research backs up what we have been told anecdotally; namely, that the real benefit to businesses and entrepreneurs of freelance talent is the increased productivity coupled with very high levels of motivation.”
Lewis continued, “Cost saving is not the dominant benefit identified in this research. This means freelancers won’t cut your costs, but you can expect more productive results from the same expenditure”.
In the highly competitive world of high quality demands choice is always individual. According to the research results possible priority of managers, Full Time or Freelancer is more or less vivid. Though , choice also depends on the market needs. But let it be the topic of another post.
Sources:
http://www.enterprisefreelancefair.co.uk/
http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=59740
