Americans work more, seem to accomplish less

[devilgrrl]

But but but... I thought technology was supposed to make our lives easier! :sarcasm:

Anyone surprised by this news? I'm sure as hell not! :grr:


Americans work more, seem to accomplish less

By Ellen Wulfhorst
Thu Feb 23, 9:52 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Most U.S. workers say they feel rushed on the job, but they are getting less accomplished than a decade ago, according to newly released research.
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Workers completed two-thirds of their work in an average day last year, down from about three-quarters in a 1994 study, according to research conducted for Day-Timers Inc., an East Texas, Pennsylvania-based maker of organizational products.

The biggest culprit is the technology that was supposed to make work quicker and easier, experts say.

"Technology has sped everything up and, by speeding everything up, it's slowed everything down, paradoxically," said John Challenger, chief executive of Chicago-based outplacement consultants Challenger, Gray & Christmas Inc.

"We never concentrate on one task anymore. You take a little chip out of it, and then you're on to the next thing," Challenger said on Wednesday. "It's harder to feel like you're accomplishing something."

Unlike a decade ago, U.S. workers are bombarded with e-mail, computer messages, cell phone calls, voice mails and the like, research showed.

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1. technology is great!

it means that now, highly paid executives can spend valuable time futzing with spell-checkers while typing up their own word documents rather than hiring someone who knows how to spell to do this for them at a fraction of the labor costs!

ain't technology grand?

[Skidmore]

2. Technology....snort....

I spend more time kicking my printer and waiting for my computer to quit freezing and timing out during each day. If mine's working, then my coworker's isn't. I used to be able to work circles around people on an old dedicated word processor with a large disk. I liked it that I had a bit of control through tweaking DOS to approximate proportional spacing before some geek decided he could write a program for it.