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CPA Voice: Increase your productivity with task batching
Written on Oct 5, 2023
Many strive to increase their productivity, but it is challenging to do. Task batching is a useful method that involves grouping specific tasks to get them done at one time.
“This allows you to focus more deeply on a single task, saving time and energy by eliminating the need to switch back and forth between systems and tasks,” writes Jenna Blackwood, financial and accounting coordinator, Boomer Consulting, Inc., in the September/October issue of CPA Voice.
Blackwood recommends grouping similar tasks, silencing your email, and utilizing project management tools in order to maximize one’s efficiency while completing and organizing short-term and long-term projects. Ultimately, this increase in productivity leads to long-term benefits.
“A study published in the Harvard Business Review found that, on average, it takes a little over two seconds to switch from one application to another,” writes Blackwood. “That might not sound like much, but the average knowledge worker toggles between different applications and websites 1,200 times a day. Over a year that adds up to five work weeks, or 9% of your annual time at work.”
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