Second Cup: When you bill time
Before Breakfast
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4.5 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:33.7 | Welcome to Before Breakfast a production of iHeart Radio |
| 0:39.2 | Good morning |
| 0:40.7 | This is Laura |
| 0:42.7 | Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast |
| 0:45.7 | Today's tip is for those of you who build time for a living |
| 0:50.5 | There is a big debate about whether this is the right approach to serving clients |
| 0:54.5 | But if you do it, certain practices can help make sure that you are more efficient and focused during the time you plan to work |
| 1:03.3 | Whenever I tell people to track their time, I suggest they think of themselves as lawyers building their time to different projects |
| 1:12.1 | Intriguingly many actual lawyers with billable hour quotas refuse to do this exercise |
| 1:18.4 | They get so accustomed to thinking of their work days in billable chunks that the idea of doing it for all their time even for just a week seems awful |
| 1:28.7 | Some do it, but very grudgingly I |
| 1:32.5 | Find this fascinating because on some level many jobs have an expectation of a certain number of working hours |
| 1:40.2 | Yet putting a billable hour quota on it somehow makes life feel like a race against the clock |
| 1:46.8 | In any case having an expectation of billable hours can make life stressful during times when it is hard to build hours |
| 1:54.8 | I was reminded of this when I got a note recently from someone who's law firm like so many companies had gone virtual during the pandemic |
| 2:02.3 | Many of the firm's lawyers were supervising virtual learning or had kids who are around a lot more than in the past |
| 2:08.8 | And the net result was a reasonable amount of household distraction |
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