nbrii.com— A list of 5 factors that affect employee productivity. They're blaming your boss! Employees suffer lower productivity from a bad boss, among other things like a lack of proper technology.
Mar 29, 2007View in Crawl 4
you know I'd love to drive ferraris and s**t all day long just like the guys on 5th gear. Serious now, don't come with this "do what you really like" s**t cause in REAL life things don't work that way, you do what you have to do and if you're not satisfied you go for a better job, that's it
"I spend most of my day circumventing net filters. Get rid of them and I'll waste less time!"I work in the IT department at a large resort. To circumvent the net filters I have a second computer connected to the hotel's wifi network. :P
My luddite rant: Meet one of the greatest lies of the 21st century: computers make you more productive.On the contrary, nothing absolutely destroys productivity like a computer. Computers are nothing but televisions with keyboards attached to them. That is what the first consumer 8bits were, and they were totally useless. They were snake oil toys. Commodore, Radio Shack, Apple, IBM... were essentially crack peddlers. They sold us a bunch of silicon snake oil now worthless crack. You may now call the televisions they are attached to monitors, or LCDs, but its still the same thing. A crack addiction staring at a television fascinated with the ablity to move pixels and bits around in a nonexistant virtual world. Would you pay an employee to come to work and stare at a television 8 hours a day, 5 days a week? Exactly. I didn't think so.I've found, when I switch off all the computes, cover them up, and swear them off, something magical happens. All of a sudden, I become productive again. I clean up the house. I work on the car. I fix a leak in the roof. I wash some clothes. I go out and buy groceries. I pay some bills. I go outside and do some yardwork. Try it. Swear off computers for a week, force yourself, and watch how suddenly a vacuum appears once the computer is removed, and how bored you become (embrace the boredom, its a good thing) without the computer to stare at all day, and boom! you go looking for "other" more constructive thigns to do. In 20 years of evolution, computers still can only really be used to do two things: to simulate things, and as communication tools. And for both, there alternatives that work just as well that don't involve using computers at all. Get rid of all the computers in your business, and your employees will start to be productive "in the real world". Most of what is supposedly done with computers, can be done just as well or better with pen and paper, letter and envelope, blackboard and chalk, stick drawn in the sand even.Just about everything you can argue that computers can do more effiecient or better, and save you time, ends up costing you far much time and money on the back end somewhere else. All that time you spend reformating the harddrive, reinstalling OSs, configuring the system, upgrading the systems, junking the systems, crashing the systems, over and over (remember all those lovely blue screens of death and Apple bombs you've endured? and the slow reboots)... it all subtracts overwhelmingly from the fact you were able to use some copy of MacDraw Pro once to draft a little architectural plan you did in half the time than over paper. Or that one time you actually were being productive and wrote a termpaper in a wordprocessor, which saved you time over using a clunky typewriter. Those costs on the back end destroy all gains on the front end... its just shifting and expanding the cost in time to somewhere else, not eliminating it.I'm not even going to start in on the environmental costs... but lets just say, instead of trying to build these retarded $100 laptops for African chidlren, or put computers in schools, what you need to be doing with this money is buying these kids some pen and paper, and some books. $100 worth of pens and paper will be a thosand times more durable and useful to them... information storage on them has an infinate life span, no batteries are required, no OS to crash, no harddrives to fail, instantly on and instantly off, random access. You can use it to store any sort of information, from data to writing to editing to graphics.
In our company it runs a employee monitoring software (named Cyclope) which monitors all teh activities. Fisrt of all I was thinking that this is a bad idea because ... many reasons. But at some point the manager called me and told me that from the statistics that the application provided - he knows that I am working hard (visual studion - like 7 h per day plus reaserch on the Internet) and that is very good. This application has became an instrument for tracking the productivity and if you know that you are monitored you will try harder :) .. I think
Have you thought about software programs for improving employee productivity? We tried some for example Time Log, but http://www.timedoctor.com was the best program because it makes it almost impossible for employees to waste a lot of time.
jrolson7Mar 30, 2007
6. Hire some eye candy
engwarMar 30, 2007
I'm going to go out on a limb here, DeskFlyer...Let me guess. Single and childless, right?
bmartinMar 30, 2007
I find it harder to focus at work when my mind is on women.
speczMar 30, 2007
you know I'd love to drive ferraris and s**t all day long just like the guys on 5th gear. Serious now, don't come with this "do what you really like" s**t cause in REAL life things don't work that way, you do what you have to do and if you're not satisfied you go for a better job, that's it
Closed AccountMar 30, 2007
"I spend most of my day circumventing net filters. Get rid of them and I'll waste less time!"I work in the IT department at a large resort. To circumvent the net filters I have a second computer connected to the hotel's wifi network. :P
starguyMar 30, 2007
My luddite rant: Meet one of the greatest lies of the 21st century: computers make you more productive.On the contrary, nothing absolutely destroys productivity like a computer. Computers are nothing but televisions with keyboards attached to them. That is what the first consumer 8bits were, and they were totally useless. They were snake oil toys. Commodore, Radio Shack, Apple, IBM... were essentially crack peddlers. They sold us a bunch of silicon snake oil now worthless crack. You may now call the televisions they are attached to monitors, or LCDs, but its still the same thing. A crack addiction staring at a television fascinated with the ablity to move pixels and bits around in a nonexistant virtual world. Would you pay an employee to come to work and stare at a television 8 hours a day, 5 days a week? Exactly. I didn't think so.I've found, when I switch off all the computes, cover them up, and swear them off, something magical happens. All of a sudden, I become productive again. I clean up the house. I work on the car. I fix a leak in the roof. I wash some clothes. I go out and buy groceries. I pay some bills. I go outside and do some yardwork. Try it. Swear off computers for a week, force yourself, and watch how suddenly a vacuum appears once the computer is removed, and how bored you become (embrace the boredom, its a good thing) without the computer to stare at all day, and boom! you go looking for "other" more constructive thigns to do. In 20 years of evolution, computers still can only really be used to do two things: to simulate things, and as communication tools. And for both, there alternatives that work just as well that don't involve using computers at all. Get rid of all the computers in your business, and your employees will start to be productive "in the real world". Most of what is supposedly done with computers, can be done just as well or better with pen and paper, letter and envelope, blackboard and chalk, stick drawn in the sand even.Just about everything you can argue that computers can do more effiecient or better, and save you time, ends up costing you far much time and money on the back end somewhere else. All that time you spend reformating the harddrive, reinstalling OSs, configuring the system, upgrading the systems, junking the systems, crashing the systems, over and over (remember all those lovely blue screens of death and Apple bombs you've endured? and the slow reboots)... it all subtracts overwhelmingly from the fact you were able to use some copy of MacDraw Pro once to draft a little architectural plan you did in half the time than over paper. Or that one time you actually were being productive and wrote a termpaper in a wordprocessor, which saved you time over using a clunky typewriter. Those costs on the back end destroy all gains on the front end... its just shifting and expanding the cost in time to somewhere else, not eliminating it.I'm not even going to start in on the environmental costs... but lets just say, instead of trying to build these retarded $100 laptops for African chidlren, or put computers in schools, what you need to be doing with this money is buying these kids some pen and paper, and some books. $100 worth of pens and paper will be a thosand times more durable and useful to them... information storage on them has an infinate life span, no batteries are required, no OS to crash, no harddrives to fail, instantly on and instantly off, random access. You can use it to store any sort of information, from data to writing to editing to graphics.
zaninessOct 20, 2007
Indeed, if the boss is a real leader I can assure you the productivity will rise! Here's a site about a company about professional organization: <a class="user" href="http://www.nationalpeo.com/payrollcompany.htm">http://www.nationalpeo.com/payrollcompany.htm</a> . We could use it.Cheers
giddeonNov 12, 2008
In our company it runs a employee monitoring software (named Cyclope) which monitors all teh activities. Fisrt of all I was thinking that this is a bad idea because ... many reasons. But at some point the manager called me and told me that from the statistics that the application provided - he knows that I am working hard (visual studion - like 7 h per day plus reaserch on the Internet) and that is very good. This application has became an instrument for tracking the productivity and if you know that you are monitored you will try harder :) .. I think
nicollepetersenOct 7, 2010
Have you thought about software programs for improving employee productivity? We tried some for example Time Log, but http://www.timedoctor.com was the best program because it makes it almost impossible for employees to waste a lot of time.