A packed, busy schedule may have you wanting to stop working on the weekend. It’s easy for Saturday and Sunday to become your catch up days. The problem is working during your weekends can lead to burnout.
In this episode of our Employee Productivity series, you’ll learn several strategies designed to free up time, so you don’t have to work on the weekend.
What Productivity Questions Does This Video Answer?
- How do I avoid burnout at work?
- How can I stop working on the weekend?
- Can automation give me more productive time at work?
- How can I free up time in my busy schedule?
Video Transcript: How to Stop Working on the Weekend
Be careful if your employees work on the weekend. I came across a recent study that made me nervous when it comes to working on the weekend. It found that roughly seventy percent of the respondents spent at least one weekend a month, taking care of work.
This is where it gets even more scary because a lot of them found they were working up to nine hours during that extra day of work. Every once in a while, we all have to put in some extra time on the job and sometimes on the weekend you can get more done because it’s quieter and you could focus a little better.
But if you’re starting to add on a regular basis, extra days of work, it’s going to catch up to you and your productivity is going to start to fall. So I want you to consider why are you having to do the work on the weekend?
Is it because there’s a Monday deadline right away on Monday? Is there any way that deadline can be changed? Allowing you forty eight hours to rest and recuperate?
Also, is it possible to prioritize your work so that if something is due, that’s very important or unexpected, you’re able to put other things aside so you can give it one hundred percent focus, catch up with the other things later. Again, we’re trying to protect your weekend.
Sometimes you have that good productive employee and over time they start to take on lots of little tasks. They just inherit them. They start to add up and before long these things take up a lot of their time.
You need to see if that person still needs to be doing all those tasks. If some of them can be given to other people, maybe some form of automation can replace them. The idea is free up the time that allow someone to focus on the important work Monday through Friday.
About This Video Series
Ken Okel’s ongoing Employee Productivity video series will make you more effective on the job. Every week, you’ll learn a new, easy to understand tip that you can use right away, like how automation can help your team.
Got a productivity problem? Let us know and we’ll feature it in an upcoming episode.
About Ken Okel
As a motivational speaker, Ken Okel works with leaders and organizations to boost productivity, performance, and profits. At conferences, conventions, and company meetings, he engages audiences with new ways to maximize their time at work. To see a sample of his keynote and workshop presentations, visit his video page.
