Procrastination is one of the main obstacles that prevent people from living a full life and working effectively. Procrastination is the postponement of timely, appropriate actions to a later date, leading to a deterioration in the quality of work and negative emotional reactions. At the same time, a person, realizing the need to perform quite specific and important tasks (for example, his or her job functions), ignores this need and distracts his or her attention from household chores or entertainment. Regretting missed opportunities and self-reproaches associated with it take up more time than it would take to solve the problem. Therefore, due to procrastination, people lose time that they could spend more efficiently. Control over it will allow people to redo more things and more effectively realize their potential. This article presents the results of a sociological survey among students enrolled in the Economics program in 3 countries of the Eurasian Customs Union (EACU): Belarus, Russia and Kazakhstan, as well as to verify the results in Slovakia (as a country of the European Union, but a former country of the Eastern Bloc). If procrastination of students (future employees) is an existing phenomenon, then modern management needs new tools to stimulate future personnel, since the available tools are most likely to be ineffective.