Re-experiment
A new month a
new start. A month with 20 working days,
160 hours, 9600 minutes with new rules for me.
- I have not
to answer at every phone call
- When I
answer the phone and somebody wants something from me I ask him to send his
request via email
- When someone
came to my office, I ask him to take place until I reach into working point
which could easily resume.
At the end of
the month I counted: 506 interruptions totaling 961 minutes. This time I don't
count the time to come back to work. So, I assume that is the same as the last
month: 3 minutes. (I have the feeling was less than 3 minutes this month).
Data analysis
961 minutes /
506 interruptions = 1.9 minutes is
average time for each interruption.
A month
before that was: 2260 minutes / 682 = 3.3
So, those new
rules had a major impact in my work:
-
significantly decreased the number of interruptions
- time spent at each interruption decreased
with 42%
Keeping the same logical as previous month I lose 506*1.9 minutes +506*3 minutes = 2479.4 minutes -> 41.32 hours.
Because this month have only 20 working days, we can calculate:
41.32 / 160 * 100 = 15.50% of time was wasted time.
I decreased my wasted time from 40.77% to 15.50%.
Conclusion
I think you can themselves conclude.
If this article convinced you to repeat experience, please keep me up to date with that and with your results.
P.S. Now, no longer overtime for me