It's important to crush the motivation and drive of the hard working people for a true socialist system to take place. A society where everyone is the same equal level of underachieving mediocre. There's nothing surprising about who and why they're writing this kind of crap into work agreements/regulations/laws.
Just don't be surprised as to why there hasn't been a single project finished on time or under budget in decades.
Free country eh, whatever that means.
Actually, there was a large project finished ahead of schedule, the renovation of the stretch of highway 40/64 extending west of St. Louis. It was one of the oldest stretches of divided highway in the state and showed it. MODOT, Missouri Department of Transportation, and whatever private contractors were involved, finished well ahead and did a terrific job. The only objection I had was that I walked home from grade school on the Spoede Road bridge over it. The bridge had a rectangular aluminum rail that made a flat place for evil minded urchins to draw obscene pictures, making great reading for a third grader. When they widened the highway, the bridge had to go. All that great art destroyed.
Re work restrictions, my career goals did not include being #55840 stringing wires in F101s so after one year at McDonnell Aircraft I took a pay cut to go to a smaller outfit where my performance, good or bad, would be noticed. I worked very hard and within a couple of years was in the engineering department and off the clock.
Re making suggestions, I am not saying to not make any, just to tread very lightly. One thing you might consider, your cell phone probably has a timer that you can start and stop. Start it when you go off looking for a fixture and stop it when you get back to your machine, then start it again when you go looking for the next one. That will give the cumulative time you spent looking and you can compare it to the total setup time. Then when you present it to the boss, it will be simple data.
Bill
P. S. In 1968 I had the doubtful privilege of spending 2 weeks in Magdeburg, East Germany. Arnold Wagner, a Swissair pilot who was in the World Aerobatic competition, told a group of East Germans "I fly all over the world and everywhere I see socialism it is bullshit, but here you have perfect socialism. That means you have perfect bullshit."
The East Germans who would speak openly just wanted to know the shortest way to the West.
SND, be happy with what you have. The other side is a lot worse.