> if you expect your employees to produce every week only what they can do in an afternoon and no more ... then they will have time to fix problems that arrive

> if you expect your employees to produce every week only what they can do in an afternoon and no more ... then they will have time to fix problems that arrive randomly, rework the parts of their work they got wrong on the first try, and study and train to stay sharp to do the next piece of work. Ironically, all of those will make them produce their next piece of work faster, making this one "problem" worse and worse. But I left the real benefit to the end... those people will have enough time to think about how they can work into improving something on their workplace. You know, the people that actually do the work, how they can apply the work they know about, because they do it, instead of people that know nothing about it being specialized in thinking how to apply other people's work. The GP saw a good manager trying to keep his people safe from a dysfunctional organization. The dysfunctional organization is a read flag, for sure, but it doesn't automatically mean the environment is a bad one.