In the U.S., people work an average of 45 hours per week and consider 16 of those hours to be unproductive. Businesses and industries have distinct goals and derive from and build off of different resources (donations, profits, contracts, staff size, infrastructure, etc.). However, there is one resource common to and equal among all industries, projects, managers, and employees: time.
Productivity can be treated as a buzzword, or it can be infused into everything your company does.
There is a distinct line between working hard and burning out. Managers want highly engaged, energetic employees—but often it is those employees, the hardest workers, who, after a few months of running hard on a project hit become deflated or quit.
