Weekends Are For RelaxingSaturday, July 22, 2006How much work do you do over the weekends? Are you working all weekend? If so, how much extra are you getting paid to sacrifice your personal time? Are you being compensated to give up time for relaxation? I wonder how many professionals even consider if there is a return on investment for giving up their weekend. If you work for a well run company, you can trust that the executives are constantly calculating return on investment. So why are you not doing it as well? Let's say that you are working the weekend to help reach a goal for an annual bonus of $5000. While it is always great to get paid more, it is not always worth it. How many weekends have you worked during the year to reach that goal? How many evenings? How many hours a day do you work? Do the math. Figure out what you are worth on an hourly basis. For example if you are getting paid $50 an hour, how many extra hours does it take until you have worked for the bonus? Only 100 hours. Do you work 50 hours a week? It only took you 10 weeks to earn your bonus. But how more weeks, days and weekends did you actually put in? If you worked an additional 200 hours (not hard to do), that is $15,000. The $5000 bonus doesn't seem worth it now does it? Your actual loss does not stop at hours worked. You need to calculate your lost opportunity. You can bet your company does this.Why don't you? What could you have done with 300 extra hours in your life? Makes you think, doesn't it? posted at 7/22/2006 12:57:00 PM |
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