"Balchin’s Rowntree conference paper looks at the issue of time-wasting. He begins by..."

“Balchin’s Rowntree conference paper looks at the issue of time-wasting. He begins by pronouncing himself to be an expert on the subject, and then challenges his object to define exactly what they mean by ‘wasting time’. He points out that activity does not always result in productivity, and that different people work at different speeds and in different ways. Just because someone doesn’t appear to be active doesn’t mean they are not productive. 'The really important sources of waste time are not the gross and obvious ones’, Balchin says, 'but those which are subtle and insidious.’”

- The Rowntree Business Lectures and the Interwar British Management Movement   https://rowntree.exeter.ac.uk/items/show/6