Clock Watching Divides Workplaces, but Time Favors Neither Side.

Examines the issue of time in the workplace and how it is viewed by the workers and management. Example of John Bullard, who was a clock watcher when he worked on his factory line's conveyor belt and now, as an engineer-training coordinator, who feels there isn't enough time in the workday; Activities of lower-level employees in an effort to appear busy before the end of the workday; Comments from Geoff Godbey, professor of leisure studies at Pennsylvania State University, suggesting the cause of clock watching; How clock watching began in the United States when the country was a manufacturing-based economy; Changes in the work place as the result of the U.S.' service-based society.