And such extremes are growing. Get up at dawn to avoid traffic jams, drop the baby off at daycare, go to work, do some quick errands at lunchtime or grab a sandwich and get more work done, keep on working, go home, make supper, do the housework, collapse in front of the TV, then fall into bed in a stupor. No, this is a typical day for city workers. That is what people lose when they are too busy. The first reason is personal.
People lack awareness of the value and brevity of time.
The busier you are, the more overworked and overwhelmed, the less you take time to stop. Analyze your use of time, the problems you encounter, their causes and the solutions to take. This is a well-known process in Total Quality. The second reason is organizational. Think of how much time is lost searching for misfiled documents, bothering coworkers for information, squandering time in unproductive meetings, redoing unclear assignments, writing reports no one reads, and so on.