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If a company only has 10% inefficiencies, they are doing a fabulous job. Most companies probably have 50% of their workforce surfing the web at any one time.

by smackfu 12y ago

AndrewKemendo 12y ago
Well the former is structural, the latter is behavioral, so there is difference in kind. Said another way, you can't get work from a ghost, but you can find incentives/realign people so they are more productive.
- shawabawa3 12y ago
  > but you can find incentives/realign people so they are more productive. By giving them more vacation maybe?
  - AndrewKemendo 12y ago
    I was thinking more along the lines of having them do work they are interested in/care about.
    - uxp 12y ago
      Or quit thinking of them as resources or machines that were advertised to you as 100% efficient for 8 hours 5 days a week and realize that the 2 hours in a given 8 hour day spent reading HN or browsing YouTube _are_ part of the 100%. No one can walk into an office and be at 100% efficiency within microseconds. Windup and spin down time is part of the cost of running an organization. Not only is there windup/spindown at 9AM and 5PM, but at 12PM and 1PM, and probably at around 3 or 4PM in addition. If someone is only putting in 2 hours of efficient work a day, then maybe you should start thinking about shuffling them within or out of the organization depending on the position and level they're filling, but asking about 10% inefficiency due to "missing bodies" is equivalent to complaining about getting shorted a penny from the barista. It's literally pocket change, get over it.
    - jarek 12y ago
      If you ask them, most developers will have something about the current codebase they would like to improve, or a 20%-like project that might improve the products. You can have them do this during times of over-availability.

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If a company only has 10% inefficiencies, they are doing a fabulous job. Most companies probably have 50% of their workforce surfing the web at any one time.

by smackfu 12y ago

If a company only has 10% inefficiencies, they are doing a fabulous job. Most companies probably have 50% of their workforce surfing the web at any one time.

AndrewKemendo 12y ago
Well the former is structural, the latter is behavioral, so there is difference in kind. Said another way, you can't get work from a ghost, but you can find incentives/realign people so they are more productive.
- shawabawa3 12y ago
  > but you can find incentives/realign people so they are more productive. By giving them more vacation maybe?
  - AndrewKemendo 12y ago
    I was thinking more along the lines of having them do work they are interested in/care about.
    - uxp 12y ago
      Or quit thinking of them as resources or machines that were advertised to you as 100% efficient for 8 hours 5 days a week and realize that the 2 hours in a given 8 hour day spent reading HN or browsing YouTube _are_ part of the 100%. No one can walk into an office and be at 100% efficiency within microseconds. Windup and spin down time is part of the cost of running an organization. Not only is there windup/spindown at 9AM and 5PM, but at 12PM and 1PM, and probably at around 3 or 4PM in addition. If someone is only putting in 2 hours of efficient work a day, then maybe you should start thinking about shuffling them within or out of the organization depending on the position and level they're filling, but asking about 10% inefficiency due to "missing bodies" is equivalent to complaining about getting shorted a penny from the barista. It's literally pocket change, get over it.
    - jarek 12y ago
      If you ask them, most developers will have something about the current codebase they would like to improve, or a 20%-like project that might improve the products. You can have them do this during times of over-availability.