So the risk of stress, depression, burnout, and turnover is notably high. Research shows that hospital staff spend spend non-productive or idle time on activities that do not add value to the hospital, such as accessing the internet for leisure activities. With experts reporting an average of 3. While originally implemented in manufacturing, the well-documented Just in Time management system is increasingly being applied to healthcare to optimize non-productive time.
The Just in Time JIT system involves a philosophy of producing what is required, when required , with no excess. In terms of hospitals, this could mean aligning actual hours spent working with hours required as closely as possible.
Not only does that idle clinician use that time to learn how to use the system and eventually use it , but in the future, they will not be idle waiting for support on that system. You can reduce idle time through training and discouraging non-professional activities. Idle time can also be a result of non-functioning equipment, waiting on fresh supplies, and cleaning time. BFW helps hospitals and clinics reduce idle time by providing headlamps and headlamp equipment that works without fail in all medical environments.
See our product line today. Request a Trial. Then he sits and waits for the next phone call. He has nonproductive time built into his particular job. Other nonproductive time is simply the result of imperfect communication between colleagues or shared office equipment.
Consider a paralegal working in a law firm. He is sent in to make copies of discovery documents, but the attorney who is to give them to him is on the phone and gestures for him to wait. He waits, and in time, the attorney gets off the phone and identifies the documents to copy. The paralegal takes them into the copy room, but the machine is in use. Once again, he must wait. Read More: Part Time Vs. Full Time Hours. While an employer might like to cut down on nonproductive time, it may not be possible.
Some employers try to accomplish this by asking workers to sign agreements providing for payment only for productive hours. Unpaid time would include work hours spent in travel for the employer, time spent waiting or in similar nonproductive time.
Payment pursuant to such an agreement will not comply with the Act ; such nonproductive working hours must be counted and paid for. The parties may agree to compensate nonproductive hours worked at a rate at least the minimum which is lower than the rate applicable to productive work. In the absence of any agreement setting a different rate for nonproductive hours, the employee would be owed compensation at the regular hourly rate set for productive work for all hours up to 40 and at a rate at least one and one-half times that rate for hours in excess of The situation described in paragraph a of this section is to be distinguished from one in which such nonproductive hours are properly counted as working time but no special hourly rate is assigned to such hours because it is understood by the parties that the other compensation received by the employee is intended to cover pay for such hours.
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