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Time Spent...Or Time Wasted?
by tryme1 @ 17.02.08 - 13:57:29

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.

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Alastair Revell [Visitor]
http://blogs.rrs.co.uk/revella
20/03/08 @ 20:18

I would also add that information technology is also an essential activity and that time spent on it is not time wasted either!

Alastair Revell
Managing Consultant
Revell Research Systems

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