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On the topic, why does it matter what physical hours you work? If the job is getting done, what does it matter? This way of thinking seems like a holdout from
by nasalgoat 7y ago
On the topic, why does it matter what physical hours you work? If the job is getting done, what does it matter?
This way of thinking seems like a holdout from the industrial revolution when physical tasks needed to be done in manufacturing and output was directly tied to time spent making the widgets.
Information work, or system administration work, is substantially different yet still follows the same model as though we are physically assembling things on a line.
- carbine 7y agoI totally agree, and yet for most white collar jobs there's no binary done/not done. You can always be doing more, creating more, proactively leading things, planning ahead, suggesting new initiatives. When we start competing on that second vector then it's near impossible to say "ok I've been here for 3 hours today but I'm done so I'm going home."
- nasalgoat 7y agoI'm fairly sure most white collar jobs also have projects and targets.