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One must dedicate maximum efforts and strengths towards completing the tasks which one was hired for.<ref>Rambam Hilchos Sechirut 13:7 explains that just as an employer has to be careful not to steal from his worker, so too his worker must be stringent upon himself not to waste time. He is obligated  to work ''B’Kol Kocho'', with all his strength, just like Yaakov Avinu did when working for Lavan (Bereishit 31:6). One who is careful to work stringently and honestly will even reap great reward in this world, as the Pasuk says that Yaakov was rewarded in this world and the world to come (Bereishit 30:43).</ref>
One must dedicate maximum efforts and strengths towards completing the tasks which one was hired for.<ref>The Ramchal points out in Chapter 11 of Mesillat Yesharim that a worker is exempt from the last blessing in Birkat HaMazon and everything besides the first paragraph in Kriyat Shema in order not to take him away from his work. Certainly, then, it is prohibited for one to take away from his work for his personal endeavors, and one who does so is a thief (this is likely assuming that one's employer would be strict about his employee using any time for personal endeavors, which is not the situation in most cases nowadays).
 
Rambam Hilchos Sechirut 13:7 explains that just as an employer has to be careful not to steal from his worker, so too his worker must be stringent upon himself not to waste time. He is obligated  to work ''B’Kol Kocho'', with all his strength, just like Yaakov HaTzaddick did when working for Lavan (Bereishit 31:6). One who is careful to work stringently and honestly will even reap great reward in this world, as the Pasuk says that Yaakov was rewarded in this world and the world to come (Bereishit 30:43).</ref>
==Working with Integrity==
==Working with Integrity==