Over at franchising website, Making Money, there's an article that suggests that "Half of the UK’s small businesses waste more than 24 working days a year on non-core business activity such as finance, IT and human resources..."

While it is clearly true that small business owners do spend a lot of time dealing with administrative tasks, I take issue with the use of the word "waste".

Finance and human resources are essential activities and to suggest that time spent on them is wasted is simply wrong.