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Adrianna Noton
A time management system and productivity may be seen from more than one orientation. Companies may see things from their own profit perspectives and employees may prefer to see things from the standpoint of personal efficiency. Checking up on workers to see that they do not cheat is one view. A more productive approach is to aim at productively for both parties. Though there is more than a single view it is widely accepted that in contemporary society time is a precious resource. Human beings allocate each individual twenty four hours per day for the duration of a life. Some individuals manage to live full and successful lives. Alas, there are other who may reach the end of their lives feeling that most of their hours on earth have been wasted or mismanaged. In the days of mechanical clocks and assembly lines workers were funneled through narrow gates where they were required to clock in or out, using cards that were punched and later fed to a wages department. This undignified and somewhat humiliating process can now be dispensed with thanks to the digital revolution. Sophisticated software is available making the recording process more dignified and productive. This makes it possible to dispense with antiquated methods that were inefficient and demoralizing. At one school teachers were expected to punch cards mechanically when their lessons began and out again when the lesson ended. If they came early the minutes were ignored but if they left early their pay was docked. Both ethics and morale were low as teaching somehow seemed irrelevant. Old fashioned approaches like this must largely have been abandoned in the twenty-first century. Far from promoting efficiency they tend to put priorities at the bottom rather than the top of the order of things. Fortunately the need to punch cards into mechanical recorders has been replaced with sophisticated software that is more of a pleasure to use. More up-to-date systems promote control and responsibility whilst also being more accurate. The essence of effective management must ultimately be the identification of priorities and allocation of energy to them. Digital pieces allow data to be entered into company payroll systems so that both employers and employees work cooperatively rather than at odds with each other. Work environments are very different in the information age to the way they were in the industrial era. People work online, at home and in airports and trains. Much more flexibility and responsibility is not only possible, but also required in contexts that are so different. The conception of time has to be less rigid and more focused on performance and productivity in high technology work environments. The principles of time management dictate that time should be spent on priorities. A problem is that urgent issues often demand time although they are not necessarily the most important ones. Somehow, a sophisticated time management system has to try and design software that can record activity and effectiveness so that the interests of the employer and the employee are aligned to the maximum possible degree.
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