Jason Frieds talks about why work doesn’t happened
at work and he has a very interesting point of view.
I have thought about what might be the reason that
we do not get as much done in our workplace, as we should, and I think that the
main reason is flexibility. We always need to be available even after our
shifts, by email or the phone. That takes a lot of time of our shifts because
we always get disturbed. Another problem is teamwork, almost every workplace
works with teamwork. It could be a group about ten persons and to find time to
have meetings and to delegate tasks can be a problem to a team leader. Therefore, it will be exactly as Jason says,
that many hours are spent on unnecessary meetings.
I understand exactly what Jason means by the
workers should refrain from meetings and cancel those that are not important. Every
worker should have the ability to once or twice in a month refrain from all
meetings to only focus on their tasks.
I think there are pros and cons of working from
home and the most important thing is that the individual has the discipline and
conduct of their duties at home. Then it is obviously important that technical
equipment can be used at home, many are locked into their jobs for reasons of
confidentiality.
It's very interesting what he says about managers
and meetings, as there is a huge disturbance torques. In particular, managers
who do not want to say anything but just peeking in and then begin to question
why you are doing your tasks in a particular way are very annoying. At my
workplace, we usually book a meeting with the manager when we have questions
about the project or to show how far we have come. These meetings never books
face to face only by our computer system, which allows that no one can be
bothered in the task. Do we have questions for each other, we have to send an email
instead of peek into each other's offices. I think more workplaces should
introduce this system because the employees gets more work done and if someone
have a urgent question or task they always writes that in the subject
line.
