| Is your company downsizing? Are the personnel | | | | typical office worker reading can take 20-30% of |
| costs about to be cut? Wages and bonuses to be | | | | working time. It means that if you could read |
| lowered? This situation is reality for many people. | | | | faster then you can end up with more work done |
| What can you do in order to help yourself? | | | | at the end of your work day. Faster readers will |
| The present world-wide recession is probably the | | | | produce more output. |
| worst since 1930s. Most of the developed | | | | How can you be a faster reader? You will have |
| countries are still in a economic downturn, which | | | | to learn to speed read for that. It means that |
| has endured for a year and there is still much | | | | you will learn special techniques how you can |
| instability in the financial sector. It means that jobs | | | | obtain information from text considerably faster |
| for many people are under threat. More and more | | | | than an average person does. You can increase |
| people are losing hope in the future. | | | | your reading speed by learning to read with out |
| The ongoing crisis is a result of a long economic | | | | regression, making previews before reading and |
| prosperity, which caused heavy loaning and | | | | optimizing your eye movements while reading. |
| consumption. In the good times the demand for | | | | As reading speed affects productivity then in |
| products and services was high, which meant that | | | | case of all other things equal, employees with |
| it was relatively easy for companies to earn | | | | higher reading speed are more productive. In the |
| profits. That led to inefficiency for many firms. | | | | situation where companies are downsizing, faster |
| There was no sharp need to optimize costs as | | | | readers have higher probability of retaining their |
| even if a firm had had high and pointless costs | | | | jobs. Learn to speed read and impress your boss |
| they were still able to make nice money. | | | | with your reading skills. By doing so you may not |
| But it has all gone now. In order to survive the | | | | only prevent getting fired by this but gain |
| recession companies have to cut down the costs. | | | | promotion or wage bonus. |
| If it is not possible to sell so many products now, | | | | Recession provides good opportunities for |
| then it means the income is lower and therefore | | | | upgrading your skills as the workloads are lower |
| the costs have to be lower for earning profit. As | | | | than it boom times. It means that you have more |
| wage costs are one of the major sources of | | | | time available for learning at it would be wise to |
| expenditures then firms are looking for ways to | | | | use it. The problem is that during those hard |
| operate with the lower number of employees. In | | | | times companies may be not so willing to pay for |
| the new economic situation there has to be more | | | | the training cost. What can you do then? If your |
| revenue generated per one employee, which | | | | boss will not pay for it, then you can pay those |
| means that workers have to me more | | | | expenses out of your own pocket. It may seem |
| productive. | | | | costly to cover your training costs on your own, |
| So in order to prevent being fired, you have to | | | | but it actually pays off. If you increase your |
| me more productive. How can you achieve that? | | | | productivity then in the long run you will not only |
| One possibility for that is to increase your reading | | | | keep your job but you will end up with higher |
| speed. For many jobs, you will spend considerable | | | | income. I am pretty sure that your boss will be |
| amount of working time on reading tasks. For | | | | delighted that you have invested in yourself and it |
| example, you have to read email, product | | | | will benefit your career progress. |
| documentation, invoices, manuals etc. In case of a | | | | |