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The value of dignity in work – give or take 6 minutes

Deming Institute

The company’s human resources department described “excessive use of the bathroom as…60 minutes or more over the last 10 working days…do the math and it works out to 6 minutes a day,” the article stated. I suspect this stroke of timesaving brilliance was born out of a not-so-unusual concern about productivity or output.

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Where are you on the management scale of newbie to expert hacker?

Ask Atma

They ran productive meetings. The benefit of this is: costs decrease because of less rework, fewer mistakes, fewer delays, and better use of time and materials; productivity improves; market share increases with better quality and prices. Processes, products, and services should be improved constantly; reducing waste.