Define: "Benched / On the bench" in Business
High risk of unnecessary meetings
"Do not volunteer your availability. Use the time to study."
A temporary period where an employee or consultant is unassigned to a billable client project.
What does "Benched / On the bench" actually mean?
"Sitting in corporate purgatory waiting for a project manager to blindly assign you to a technology stack you have never touched."
"We need to optimize utilization for resources currently on the bench."
"I have been benched for three weeks, so I am just doing my CCNP labs on company time."
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18 years in the corporate trenches quantifying waste so you don't have to.
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