Knowledge Workers and Idle time....

I have observed time and again that office workers (knowledge workers) tend to keep themselves busy with redundant jobs, which do not add value to the employee or the organizations many a times. knowledge workers generally want to keep themselves occupied and tend to assimilate work and are happy to be referred as good worker. But given the chance to them to cut down on this work , they tend to complain of little work or Idle time.

My personal opinion is, knowledge workers should wear the thinking cap and works towards removing redundancy, cutting down waste, shortening the process, use technology effectively and efficiently, set priorities and find new ways to do the job. The idle time is indeed a period to review the job completed and find ways to do it correctly and fast. Hence there is no time to idle........