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In the best job I ever had in my life, my boss basically told me that she didn't care about the hours I kept or how long I worked every day as long as I got my
by abhinai 8y ago
In the best job I ever had in my life, my boss basically told me that she didn't care about the hours I kept or how long I worked every day as long as I got my job done. I usually showed up to work at 12pm and left around 4pm. It ended up being one of the most productive times of my life. I created products that had hundreds of millions of dollars worth of impact on the company bottom line. In my immediate next job I had to keep long hours and for some reasons I wasn't nearly half as productive.
Atleast in my life, shorter work hours tend to heavily inversely correlate with my work output.
- 089723645897236 8y agoI am currently working in a ROWE (results only work environment). I have a similar schedule. I get way more done and have way more ideas. It's almost as if "gasp" letting people design their own work process makes them more effective!
- tc7 8y agoDoes this work best if your work is well-planned by someone else? E.g., you have a list of prioritized tickets with requirements complete, and can just code down the list? I work 32h/wk (mon-thu), and I feel happy with my productivity, but also recognize that I spend tons of time in meetings, clarifying requirements, helping other devs, etc. These aren't all really my role, so I could theoretically optimize them away and hope the invisible tasks get picked up successfully by someone else, but I know we'd have worse outcomes if I wasn't involved and "just" did my explicitly assigned tasks. Can someone with team lead/management responsibilities optimize for 'job done' this aggressively?
- abhinai 8y agoCan someone with team lead/management responsibilities optimize for 'job done' this aggressively? I will have an answer for you in a month because I am going to start trying this strategy out in my current job starting this week. :)
- mkeedlinger 8y agoPlease rope me in on this as well, I am interested to know your findings :)
- magnetic 8y ago> In the best job I ever had in my life, my boss basically told me that she didn't care about the hours I kept or how long I worked every day as long as I got my job done. I usually showed up to work at 12pm and left around 4pm. Did you have to interact with anyone? I can imagine this can be challenging if another person you need to interact with follows the same principle with a 7am to 11am schedule.
- abhinai 8y agoCorrect. A large part of this arrangement is an implicit be an adult understanding. So if such a scenario came up, I'd work out an arrangement with the other person where we could overlap some time as frequently as we need to.
- balfirevic 8y agoThat's a pretty cool arrangement. How was "getting job done" defined? My experience as a developer is that there is always something to do. So where is the line drawn?
- abhinai 8y agoThere will always be something to do and you just have to draw a line somewhere. In my experience once you have successfully delivered a few projects with high efficiency and people trust/respect you, they stop asking questions.