13. Time Management

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We normally associate time management with companies that are trying to bring new ways of making their employees more productive. Trade Unions are often blamed for restrictive practices - old ways of holding production and putting what can be done in the morning until the afternoon. However, management can also put payment of bonuses or hold salary increases until the next financial year. Some employees have to get very low pay. In the worst cases, it turns that their companies have gone bankrupt and cannot afford to pay them at all.

Time management also affects the self-employed, those looking after a home, those without work and those who are living in pain.

For the self-employed, time is money. It is important to get without killing oneself. It is foolish to go working without a break. For example, a writer needs to keep a steady output of work. A housewife, who may have the exhausting task of looking after a large family, needs to hold until her partner comes home. If she is lucky, he will take over with the children while she gets the evening meal. Those in pain may be hoping to get the day as quickly as possible and if everything goes without too much suffering, their precious sleep patterns may provide going six hours of relief.