In the most recent of my ‘productivity at work’ studies, I thought I’d make a tally of the number of times I get up from my desk each day. This is almost a health/welfare study, as it’s important to move about from your desk, but it can also demonstrate distractions (going to get a coffee or the toilet or the like) and the amount of productive work that can be jammed into the day.
So today I had one meeting, but had to go and help a few times with one of our systems. In total, I got up 11 times. 11 times – sounds excessive doesn’t it. I think it’s a lot, but in reality I had to get up 4 times for meals (to get breakfast, to put the bowl in the kitchen, to get lunch, to put the bowl in the kitchen), and then twice for meetings, so really there are only 5 other times that I got up, and they too were all reasonably understandable. So I think that’s probably pretty standard.
Just for a bit of comparison, I thought that another person here gets up a bit. I used them as the constant and tallied there ‘get ups’ as well. Guess what they came to??!?!? 6! No just kidding, they actually got up 25 times. I felt validated that I got up half as much – viva la productivity!
I also like the reference to Q Tip here. GETTIN UP!
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