We really gotta change how we conceptualize the work week
Too many old-school managerial assumptions need to get blown the eff up. Continue Reading
Work Week
Work week: How we view it is a joke
“I put in 88 last week, baby! I’m building the biz!” This is wrong on at least six different levels. Continue Reading
End the deification of the workaholic
The workaholic culture will never end, and especially among males — but we can at least reduce the ways we deify it and treat it as vain-glorious, no? Continue Reading
A 40-hour work week in 1950 = 11 hours of work in 2015
Take a look at this chart; I got it from here: Here’s the basic way to read that: a 40-hour/week worker in 1950 (far left of the chart) is essentially equivalent to an 11-hour/week worker in 2015. Phrased in a… Continue Reading
Maybe Slack could finally end some corporate seat time discussions
Last April, I wrote about how maybe Slack could revolutionize the workplace; then in February, I wrote about how they got to a $2 billion valuation with no CMO, which is insanely rare for a lot of companies. There’s something… Continue Reading
55 hours of work per week is a hard ceiling. Remember that.
People love to hop on the cross at work. “Oh, you know, just been grinding away… things are so busy…” I once had a lady I worked with tell me she was finishing work around 11pm-midnight every night, to the point that her husband… Continue Reading
Why do we confuse “productivity” with “face-time” or “seat-time” at office jobs?
“Productivity” can be achieved anywhere by a person that cares about their work, so why do we pay so much attention to whether they’re in-office? Because everything comes back to control. Continue Reading
Let’s say you shifted your organization to people working 4 days a week, 10 hours a day. Every weekend is a three-day weekend. Could this help employee engagement?
People already do this — the video above is an example, and there are pockets of big companies (like ESPN) where people can get 4 x 10 shifts as opposed to the standard 5 x 8 shift model for office/white-collar… Continue Reading