American Corporations lose an estimated 178 billion a year in lost productivity from employees surfing the Internet. Employees spend an estimated 6 hours a week surfing the web for non work related items.
I came across that information the other day researching items for my Health Care Management class. This week and next week marks the beginning of finals for college. Only two of my classes are having finals. The remaining classes take great joy in torturing me with endless papers under ridiculous deadlines. I have one instructor who calls these two weeks "Crash Week" he opens up an assignment for viewing from anywhere from 12 to 24 hours. In those few hours you have a major paper to write usually using peer reviewed articles which are a pain in the ass to research. To make things even more difficult Germany is 6 hours ahead. I find myself staying up to 3 and 4 am everyday this week trying to complete these assignment or waiting for him to open one up for viewing. The college's online Library is offline during the hours of 8 am to noon here so that creates an even bigger problem. I finished paper number 2 last night around 1 am and have another one opening up today.
You ask what my teacher's rational is behind this?
His theory is that as health care managers you need to be able to think quick on your feet and react quickly to issues. His comical way of torturing us with these ridiculous deadline is his way of preparing us for that.
On the bright side the semester ends next week. :)
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