The research carried out by Scottish Enterprise showed that one in four workers in Scotland with slow internet access were wasting an hour a day waiting for files to download or documents to be sent.

Do these people just sit around doing nothing whilst they wait for these things to download? If so, they should be fired. Either because they’re not doing their job if there is plenty to do – surely there’s other stuff to do? If there isn’t plenty to do then why do these companies need them?

Alternatively, train people in time management. Coincidentally, I read this today, which summarises the concept of The Grid, which is a very simple time management method. According to Dave Allen: “When large organisations implement my kind of methodology (not The Grid, but something called Getting Things Done), the typical self-assessed gain is an hour a day. Just think what you would do with another hour a day.”

QED.