If your boss gives you a task but says it’s not time sensitive, what is a reasonable turnaround?

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Depends on the task. You could always just ✨️ask✨️

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Your reasonable suggestions have no place here!!!

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1) Ask them “Do you have a general timeframe in mind?”

Or

2) Manage up = Tell them when you think you can get to it. For example, “this week I have X,Y, Z to do. I should be able to get to this early next week and have something for your review by mid week. Does this sound good?”

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This is my usual approach too. This also applies to my client requests, if they say not urgent, I’ll suggest a timeline based on my workload and availability.

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1. Ask.
2. Personally I'd expect something in about 2 weeks.

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Three years

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It really does just depend on the task, however usually when a boss of mine tells me it’s not time sensitive, I just try to either ask if they had a reasonable expectation of when they want it/or otherwise I just throw out a day or timeframe and see if it works for them.

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Could be 2 weeks, could be 6-12 months. It really depends on what it is and what comes up.

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Could be a couple days, weeks, months, quarters… really depends on what’s driving the ask, what it’ll be used for, and any timing needs around those. So as others have said, ask.

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I would say a week. Maybe 2.

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Depends on what it is and how much time it would normally take to accomplish. I would start with 1-2 weeks. But if possible, I would try to figure out what may be driving a deadline for the task or overall project, and then work back from there...

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One week

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Never.

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