In some regards the economist's predictions were correct as many people really only work 15 hours or less a week right now. The rest is meetings, chit chat, calls, emails, looking busy. But don't go home early or you'll look like you aren't dedicated.
It is kind of messed up situation and probably will eventually resolve towards efficiency.
Communication is necessary if you work in large groups towards common goals (row in the same direction).
That is currently done by emails, meetings and calls and are a necessary cost of business (obviously to a certain extent).
My managers currently target 25 hours of individual work with the rest being taken up by the aforementioned topics which I find a reasonable/maybe a little high balance.
15 hours of individual work per week is pretty low though.
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In some regards the economist's predictions were correct as many people really only work 15 hours or less a week right now. The rest is meetings, chit chat, calls, emails, looking busy. But don't go home early or you'll look like you aren't dedicated.
It is kind of messed up situation and probably will eventually resolve towards efficiency.
Communication is necessary if you work in large groups towards common goals (row in the same direction).
That is currently done by emails, meetings and calls and are a necessary cost of business (obviously to a certain extent).
My managers currently target 25 hours of individual work with the rest being taken up by the aforementioned topics which I find a reasonable/maybe a little high balance.
15 hours of individual work per week is pretty low though.