Why We Put Off Tasks------ A New Formula

There are two contradictory views about procrastinators:
1.They are extra careful
2.They are bone idle

But if you go by Mr Piers Steel,a business professor at Calgary University in Canada, both of the views are wrong.

So the question is why people procrastinate?
He devised a formula to explain the phenomenon of procrastination. It is:

U=EV/ID

The U stands for utility, or desire to complete a given task. It is equal to the product of “E”-the expectation of success and “V” the value of completion.
This has to be divided by the product of “I” – the immediacy of the task and “D” the personal sensitivity to delay.

So HR Managers just give a thought to this.