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Work Sampling for Time Management

The document describes the results of a work sampling activity conducted by the author. It shows that on average during the observed week, the author spent 34% of their time sleeping, 20% on organizational stuff, 11% chatting on Facebook, and the remaining time on other activities like studying, eating, and commuting. The author realizes they did not allocate enough time to studying activities and can improve their productivity by reducing time spent commuting and on unnecessary other activities.

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Work Sampling for Time Management

The document describes the results of a work sampling activity conducted by the author. It shows that on average during the observed week, the author spent 34% of their time sleeping, 20% on organizational stuff, 11% chatting on Facebook, and the remaining time on other activities like studying, eating, and commuting. The author realizes they did not allocate enough time to studying activities and can improve their productivity by reducing time spent commuting and on unnecessary other activities.

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Mark Emmanuel Reyes

2011-34934

IE 3 WFX
Sir Janni Boydon

ACTIVITY 3: WORK SAMPLING ACTIVITY


Work sampling is used to know how much of your time is put into value adding
work or into non-value adding work. After doing the work sampling, getting random
times makes it unbiased. It shows how much of your time is utilized. Therefore you
can adjust your behaviour to value adding work. I think it is really helpful to know
and recall what I have done in the day and see if you really become productive or
just feeling productive (feelers).
STUDYING

total
Hour(s) per
day

ORG
STUFF

SLEEPING

COMMUTIN
G

EATING

SOCIALIZIN
G

FB

OTHERS

total

3
0
7
0

11
5
8
4

14
10
12
11

3
4
4
0

3
5
2
1

3
0
2
0

3
4
5
4

0
12
0
0

40
40
40
20

10

28

47

11

11

16

12

140

7%

20%

34%

8%

8%

4%

11%

9%

100%

1.7

4.8

8.1

1.9

1.9

0.9

2.7

2.1

24

I allocate 34% of my time in sleeping, 20% in org stuff, 11% chatting in Facebook,
9% on others, 8% in eating, 8% in commuting, 7% in studying, and 4 % in
socializing. From this observation, I can also interpret this that on average of the
observed week, I had 1.7hrs of studying time a day, 4.8hrs of doing org stuff, 8.1hrs
of sleeping, 1.9hrs of eating, 1.9hrs of commuting, 0.9hrs of socializing, 2.7hours of
chatting in Facebook, and 2.1hrs of doing other stuff not mentioned.
My goal is life is to have the things I need and the things I want after. I am not
greedy; I just want a simple life, no stress, yet getting what is just needed to have
fun. I think as of the moment my allocation does not lead to my goal because I can
see that I really did not do well in this past week.
I can identify that the value adding to achieve my goal is the studying and the org
stuff. The non-value adding that should be eliminated to improve my productivity
are the commuting and some of the other stuff I am doing. The business non-value
adding for me is the sleeping and eating and socializing, because as humans we
need to get well and interact with each other. Maybe I would lessen my FB to the
extent that I will use it for academic life, and org stuff, then do the idle part in FB in
socializing instead.

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