These are people who look, but don’t buy.\u00a0Retail stores dread window shoppers. The more egregious ones leave their fingerprints on\u00a0the merchandise, and create work for staff who have to re-arrange the goods after the window shopper has left. A small percentage may return to purchase, the rest may just order it online. Having a small percentage of window shoppers has benefits, for one thing, the store will look crowded, so people will assume the store is popular.<\/p>\n

You or your co-workers who do tasks without a plan are the “window shoppers” in the workplace. You dabble in this task, and that task, and leave at the end of the day satisfied that you did a “lot of things.” But the ROI on your time is minimal to none.<\/p>\n

It is not easy to plan, because that requires clarity which is not always available in the workplace. When you make a plan, you are committing to a deadline, it almost feels like you have given up your freedom till that deadline is met. With a plan, you cannot wander off and do something else that may catch your fancy.<\/p>\n

To say you are working in a fast moving environment is a sorry excuse. You need a plan, period. It may be a short term plan, and it may change, but a stake in the ground is needed to stamp out the loss of productivity from window shopping in the workplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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