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Lengthen, delay, or split assignments

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Lengthen, delay, or split assignments

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- [Instructor] After you assign people to activities, you have to make sure people's workloads stay as steady as possible. By avoiding workload peaks and valleys, people work more efficiently and productively. There are three basic ways to even out someone's workload; lengthening, delaying and splitting assignments. Lengthening assignments can be an easy fix when someone is overloaded. When that person has a few concurrent assignments, you might increase their duration so the person works fewer hours on each assignment each day. In the sample project, the graphic designer has two one week tasks scheduled at the same time, capture screenshots and draw illustrations. Increasing the duration of these assignments to two weeks allows the graphic designer to work on both of them half-time. Delaying one or two of the person's assignments is another way to balance their workload. Delays work well when assignments are short.…

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