Looking Busy: 50 Ways to Look Busy at Work Even When You're Not

by Jay Schorr, Jim Morin (Illustrator)

For millions of workers across America, it’s not how busy they are at work that counts, but how busy they look.The average American worker spends only 5-1/2 hours of an eight-hour day actually doing work. That leaves 2-1/2 hours a day – or 12-1/2 hours a week! – to look busy. What you do with those 12-1/2 hours can mean the difference between your bottom line and the unemployment line.Now, looking busy at work is easier than ever with Looking Busy – 50 Ways to Look Busy At Work Even When You’re Not, illustrated by The Miami Herald's Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist, Jim Morin.From looking busy using an office telephone to shuffling papers on a desk, and from pensive doodling to more advanced maneuvers such as copy machine diversions, Looking Busy covers all the bases. Workers will learn from the masters how to look busy using common office supplies, office equipment, old crumpled paper and even a Styrofoam cup. Looking Busy also teaches workers how to read a steamy novel or listen to their favorite music on their iPods right under their bosses’ noses – and be commended for doing so.Looking Busy also features time-killing favorites with applications for every work environment clerical, administrative, blue-collar, managerial, corporate, individual and group settings. Looking Busy is an invaluable guide and reference tool for American workers… and their bosses. But There’s only one way to look busy when you’re not – you’ve got to work at it.

67 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 13, 2012