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> Some days your productivity is 0%, others it’s 300%. Obviously this depends on the job, but the problem is that people like to believe that they have plenty
by paulcole 3y ago
> Some days your productivity is 0%, others it’s 300%.
Obviously this depends on the job, but the problem is that people like to believe that they have plenty of those “other” days you describe. If you ask somebody at random how productive they were that day and they answer, “not at all” isn’t it much more likely that person is generally unproductive than an exceptional performer having a slower day?
- ipaddr 3y agoNo because productive people ebb and flow. The productive person is too burned out to make up an answer but the unproductive spent their time coming up with material for the standup show
- shortcake27 3y agoThis is a difficult question to answer as I don’t even know if it’s possible to measure this objectively at all. But in my experience, the people with enough self-awareness to admit they got nothing done yesterday are not the same people who assume they overachieve every other day. I find the least productive people to be the ones who always pretend like they’re super productive all the time. Self-assessing on this metric may very well be biased. However, your performance is being measured externally. a good manager understands people can have very unproductive days and very productive days, and they should be looking at the broader picture. If someone gets dragged for a single bad day, something is very wrong with the management.