WSJ.com – Clock Watching Divides Workplaces, but Time Favors Neither Side addresses different perspectives on time in the workplace:
Time may be many things — money, an enemy, a healer, something either saved or wasted — but at work it’s never on your side. Employees think it moves too slowly. Managers believe it goes too fast. In general, their different perspectives illustrate the great divide between bosses, who tend to think that presence equals productivity, and workers, who often feel forced to provide proof of their commitment.
Increasingly, people seem to feel that they don’t have enough free time:
That’s because even though everything takes less time today than in our horse-and-buggy past, no one seems to have enough. According to a survey conducted by the Families and Work Institute, a center for research on the changing work force, 67% of respondents said they don’t have enough time for their children, while 63% have shorted their spouse or partner, up from 50% 11 years ago.