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The High Cost of Wasted Time

By Hal Coleman

same as paying $35,000
a year for a 9th employee
who doesn’t even exist. It
is $35,000 down the toilet
for NOTHING!
Bottom line: The
amount of lost product
and lost revenues due to
poor time management,
i.e. wasted time, any
business is absolutely
staggering.

So, the next time
ere’s something that might you see one of your
interest you. It might also employees wasting time – or you find
make you want to throw up, yourself wasting time, just think of these
Hso don’t say I didn’t warn you. numbers and remind someone that, as
long as they are on the clock, you expect
Let’s assume you have an employee
who wastes one hour on the job each day. them to be working and producing.
Or, it could be YOU who wastes one hour a After all, that’s what you pay them and
day. You know – personal telephone calls, yourself to do. Right?
smoke breaks, water cooler conversations, FYI, reading this article should not be
swapping jokes, surfing the internet – considered a waste of time, especially for
or simply staring out the window and those of you who take away something
daydreaming from time to time. from it that helps you to be more

There is an average of 250 work days successful!
in a year. And, if an employee (or YOU) Hal Coleman is
wastes one hour each day, that comes out a small business
to 250 hours wasted per year. coach and
Are you with me so far? Good. sales trainer
specializing in
Based on a 40 hour work week, that
comes out to over SIX WEEKS WASTED the pest control
industry. He
PER YEAR!!!
can be reached
Holy smokes! If you have 8 employees at 770-993-
and you pay them each an average of 0004 or email
$35,000/year and they each waste one Hal@HalColeman.com. Subscribe to his FREE
hour a day, that means you are paying online articles and videos at www.
for 2000 hours of wasted time. That’s the PestControlMarketer.com

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