Workplace time disruptions are par for the course, especially in a globally connected and often remote working world. But, according to new research from the University of Texas at Austin, there’s a lot that managers can do to help workers become more resilient to these time disruptions.
“There are different patterns of resilience to different kinds of changes in time,” one of the researchers, David Harrison, Texas McCombs professor of management, says in a Phys.org article.
Harrison suggests a few different ways to build employees’ resilience against time disruptions before they even occur. These include offering staff flexible deadlines when possible, giving workers time to adjust to schedule changes by introducing them in bite-sized chunks, and including buffer time in schedules to allow for wiggle room when disruptions occur – Harrison does this himself by leaving at least half an hour between meetings.
Explore the full article for more tips.
Source: https://phys.org/news/2024-03-temporal-resilience-jobs-employees-upside.html
