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I can only agree, depending on what you include in "productivity". I'd say it's incredibly common for a modern office worker to be engaged in email, meetings a
by fleddr 4y ago
I can only agree, depending on what you include in "productivity".
I'd say it's incredibly common for a modern office worker to be engaged in email, meetings and chat for some 4-6 hours per day.
Not only does this leave little time to do actual tasks, that little time is also highly fragmented across the day.
It's a point I've made repeatedly on similar threads: the problem with modern office work is too much collaboration. Pretty much we spent the vast majority of the day figuring out what to do when, instead of actually doing it.
- sdeframond 4y ago> Pretty much we spent the vast majority of the day figuring out what to do when, instead of actually doing it. One could argue that we virtually never do actual work. Machines or remote workers do. All we are doing is defining, communicating and controlling others' work.
- Mo3 4y agoThat's arguably also work.
- sdeframond 4y agoTrue. Figuring out what to do is work. My point is collaboration (aka "figuring out what to do when") is pretty much the essence of our work. It is machines or remote workers that are "actually doing it", as I believe GP means it.
- al_borland 4y agoGive me a project to work on by myself and it will be done in 2 days. Give me the same project with a team of people to help and it will take months, it might never get done. Just recently I had to migrate a website to some new servers with a new OS. Server build, fully automating the post-build and deployment, code changes, and testing… done in 2 days. Working with other teams around networking, change management, etc…. 9 months of waiting and hell.