{
  "title": "Time management: can a request be handled too early?",
  "url": "https://www.shr.swiss/blog/gestion-du-temps-traiter-une-demande-trop-tot-en",
  "language": "en",
  "datePublished": "2024-08-27",
  "publisher": {
    "name": "SHR — Swiss Human Resources",
    "url": "https://www.shr.swiss",
    "address": "Esplanade de Pont-Rouge 9A, 1212 Lancy, Suisse"
  },
  "summary": "Starting immediately can look like a sign of efficiency. Research nevertheless invites us to distinguish useful progress from the relief of no longer having to hold an intention in mind.",
  "section": "Research",
  "topic": "Time Management & Prioritisation",
  "place": {
    "name": "Geneva",
    "region": "Genève",
    "country": "CH"
  },
  "keyPoints": [
    {
      "heading": "What the literature establishes",
      "point": "David Rosenbaum, Lanyun Gong and Cory Potts (2014, Psychological Science) investigated a tendency they call “pre-crastination”: hastening the completion of a subgoal, even at the cost of additional physical effort."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Unloading memory without executing the task",
      "point": "Evan Risko and Sam Gilbert (2016, Trends in Cognitive Sciences) examine cognitive offloading in a literature review: the use of actions or external aids to reduce a task's cognitive demands."
    },
    {
      "heading": "The premature conclusion",
      "point": "It would be a mistake to conclude that action should wait until all information is available."
    },
    {
      "heading": "What the evidence cannot settle",
      "point": "A bucket-carrying experiment measures neither document rework nor the due diligence obligations of a Geneva-based team."
    },
    {
      "heading": "A practical check in Genève",
      "point": "Within SHR's “[Time Management & Prioritisation](/formation-gestion-du-temps-geneve)” programme, one possible exercise is to track, over two weeks, requests started before an explicitly identified confirmation."
    }
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "authors": "Potts",
      "year": "2014",
      "source": "Psychological Science"
    },
    {
      "authors": "Gilbert",
      "year": "2016",
      "source": "Trends in Cognitive Sciences"
    }
  ],
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  "citationPolicy": "Citation autorisée avec mention « SHR — Swiss Human Resources » et lien vers l'article."
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