Completing Work on Time - Why is it Important?

It is important to do your work in a timely manner because your employer is counting on you.  When you meet your deadlines, here’s what usually happens:

• You feel less stress and anxiety - you feel relief!
• You feel a sense of accomplishment - you did it!
• You will make your customers, boss, and co-workers more satisfied with your performance.
• You are more likely to receive good evaluations from your boss and/or customers.

If you finish your work later than the deadline, you may put others (including your employer) in a bad position.  For example, if you are a teacher and you do not submit your grades to the office in time, your students would not receive their report cards in time.  This would make both you and the school look badly, and many students and their parents would be angry. In short, by not working in a timely manner, you could:

• Upset other people (customers, co-workers, supervisors, students, clients, patients, etc.)
• Make your employer or work place look bad
• Increase your own stress and anxiety levels
• Cause your employer or work place to lose an opportunity or money
• Create more work for your employer
• Create more work for your co-workers / colleagues
• Lose your job

 

 

It is important to complete your work on time because your employer is counting on you. If you do not finish your work on time, your employer or customers may be unhappy with you.  When you don’t meet your deadlines, you could create more work for others and you could even lose your job. Promptly meeting deadlines will allow your employer to be satisfied with you.  You may also feel a sense of accomplishment by meeting deadlines. You will feel more relaxed when you meet your deadlines.