People can enjoy services around the clock.

While most people will still probably need, and be, to some extent, clock-timers, task-based timing should be used when performing a job that requires more creativity.

What, then, are the effects of thinking about time in these different ways? Does one make us more productive? Better at the tasks at hand? Happier? In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne-Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities—from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga—by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under clock time vs task time.

This might be a small change to the way we view work and the office, but the researchers argue that it challenges a widespread characteristic of the economy: work organized by clock time.

They leave when the clock tells them they're done.

They found clock timers to be more efficient but less happy because they felt little control over their lives.

They combine clock-based and task-based planning.

These days, the time is everywhere: not just on clocks or watches, but on cell-phones and computers.

New research shows that clock-based work schedules hinder morale ( ' , 士 氣 ) and creativity.

Clock-timers organize their day by blocks of minutes and hours.

He bought an alarm clock with a pig face.

Einstein used a definition of time for experimental purposes, as that which is measured by a clock.

Thus, time and time's relativity are measurable by any hourglass, alarm clock, or an atomic clock that can measure a billionth of a second

In experiments conducted by Tamar Avnet and Anne- Laure Sellier, they had participants organize different activities — from project planning, holiday shopping, to yoga — by time or to-do list to measure how they performed under "clock time" vs "task time"

It seems to me that a compromise would be receiving the exam questions a day or two in advance, and then doing the actual test in class with the ticking clock overhead.

We have John standing by the time clock, and he swears he saw nothing irregular.

We've held on to this workday structure – but thanks to our digital devices, many employees never really clock out.

The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.

It's important to note that the increased flexibility didn't encourage them to work around the clock.

Few of us wish to turn the clock back, but perhaps we need to remind ourselves how useful the right obstacles can be.

It's important to note that the increased flexibility didn't encourage them to work around the clock.

We've held on to this workday structure – but thanks to our digital devices, many employees never really clock out.