They want to do something that looks productive.
If the employee does not feel he has time to review the data, then he may lose hours of his workday trying to make himself look productive instead of being productive.
Officials spent "exorbitant amounts of time" in meetings and generating data and reports to make their divisions look productive, he writes.
If the volume of clay is overestimated, then the calculation of effective porosity, the effective water saturation (Swe) will be too low, and this makes the reservoir to look productive.
If these holes looked productive, proper digging could commence, aiming down to the bedrock, where the majority of the gold was found.
Do a lot of typing that looks productive.
New investment Beyond the banks, there are vast amounts of institutional capital – in pension funds and the like – looking for productive outlets.
There is of course a considerable literature on the role of 'genetic' and related searches in all kinds of single and multi-objective optimisation (see e.g. ref. 106, 107, 110, 113, 116, 210 213 and 845 858), all of which recognises that there is a trade-off between 'exploration' (looking for productive parts of the landscape) and 'exploitation' (performing more local searches in those parts).
"Looking around, most everyone looks incredibly productive, seems surrounded by friends, and ultimately appears to be fundamentally happy.
Because I pay taxes on my profit, I always look for productive ways to invest in my company first.
