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(Which hardly feels like a reward for a job well done.) YouвЂ™re paid to sit at that desk for 8 hours, and if you do your work too fast, youвЂ™re either stuck trying to look busy or youвЂ™re given extra work to help out your less efficient coworkers. In a typical 9-to-5 office environment, where everyone is doing similar tasks and has similar quotas to meet for the day, working too efficiently can backfire on you.

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The longer IвЂ™ve been in the rat race, however, IвЂ™ve come to realize how to really parse the вЂњThat was fast!вЂќ reaction: When you measure work by butt-in-chair time, workers will play the butt-in-chair game Are you sure your mom didnвЂ™t help with some of this?вЂќ Instead of being flattering, this reaction was extremely frustrating-like handing in a school project you spent all weekend perfecting, only to have your teacher say, вЂњThis looks a little too good, Jimmy. Did my bosses think IвЂ™d sped through the work to get it over with, probably making a ton of mistakes? Why were people so surprised? Were other workers taking much longer to do these tasks-and if so, did that mean I was missing some obvious step? The projects had seemed pretty straightforward to me. The response I continually got, as I handed in my completed work? вЂњWow, that was fast!вЂќДЄt face value, this is a nice compliment to receive. Being the eager-to-please (and easily bored) person I am, I did them to the best of my ability-accurately and quickly-so that I could tackle to the next thing waiting for me. When I first started at the firm I work for now (as a lowly clerk), my jobs included super-simple, mindless tasks like typing in long legal agreements and organizing files. Companies and employers are always touting the importance of worker productivity.

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