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I can easily answer that - we have to look no further than the early 200s as well as the experience of our (GenX) parents. Where I used to work a lot of the thi
by julik 4y ago
I can easily answer that - we have to look no further than the early 200s as well as the experience of our (GenX) parents. Where I used to work a lot of the things were settled by internal telephone calls within the office. On a normal workday I would receive anywhere from 10 to 30 calls, when work sessions were intense it would near 50-60 for a working day. Since the work I had to do was extremely detail-oriented and required a lot of concentration these calls were absolutely destroying my productivity.
My parents would receive about 5 to 20 calls every day, which I had to answer and be sort of like a secretary (as they were often not at home) - this was before mobile phones. This was an experience that was very very not pleasant.
- ghaff 4y agoWell it was how life was. I was a product manager and then an analyst and I got phone calls from various people all the time at my desk. It was just how business worked. Yes I was grateful when someone just asked a simple question by internal only email instead. And yes you called friends out of the blue because how would you communicate otherwise?
- dredmorbius 4y ago60 calls in an 8-hour day is a call every 8 minutes, on average. This includes the time actually talking on the phone, and whatever non-phone duties you'd have. That's not an impossible rate. It does seem improbable, however.