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Sitting in non-productive or wasteful meetings.
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Dealing with low-level interruptions that could have easily been handled by someone else.
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Doing low-value emails.
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Handling low-value requests from co-workers.
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Writing reports that have no impact on the bottom line and that no one bothers to read.
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Streaming YouTube cat videos, checking social media, or indulging in other forms of escapism for a “mental health break”.
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Doing low-level business activities that the company could easily outsource at a much lesser cost than your time to the business.
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Putting out fires that could have easily been prevented.
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Doing office work you could pay someone $25/hour or less to do (filing, faxing, copying, typing, shipping, cleaning, etc.)
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Doing personal errands you could pay someone $25/hour or less to do (laundry, cleaning, yard work, simple repair work, picking up dry cleaning.