Estimation of the Efficiency of Working Time Usage as a Factor of Sustainable Increase of Labor Productivity

The article views rationalization of working time as the most important factor of the labor productivity of personnel. Rationalization of working time is aimed at reducing losses and unproductive costs caused by deficiencies in the system of production support, its management and organization. Improving the use of working time, it is possible to increase productivity of labor very quickly without attracting additional funding. This stipulates the relevance of the study of the issues of efficient use of working time and reducing its losses and unproductive costs. The objectives of the study, the results of which are reflected in this article, were the analysis of the problems connected with inefficient use of working time at Russian enterprises and the search for ways to solve them as well as the development of an algorithm for calculating and evaluating working time efficiency. The authors of the article justified the procedure for evaluating the efficiency of working time, analyzed the structure of work at the preparatory and final stage and the time of workplace maintenance, the composition of losses and unproductive use of working time. Calculating of the possible increase of labor productivity due to better use of working time on the example of one of Samara enterprises is given. A flowchart of the analysis of working time efficiency and the assessment of reserves for labor productivity increase are presented; the main directions of improving the use of working time at enterprises are given, taking into account the reasons of its losses and unproductive costs.