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Re: IMPROVING WRITERS' EFFICIENCY

Subject: Re: IMPROVING WRITERS' EFFICIENCY
From: Dick Margulis <margulis -at- fiam -dot- net>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 10:25:57 -0500




T. Word Smith wrote:

How do you know? Prove it.

--- Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:


False contributions to "increased productivity"
(IOW, these don't increase productivity...)

1. Longer work day/work week.

2. Working lunches.

3. Shortened deadlines.

4. Fewer doc review periods.

5. Non-monetary incentives (free soda, free food,
etc.) - these boost morale, but that may have no
effect on increased productivity.


T.,

Proof is trivial for 1 and 2. I covered 3 and 4 in my response to Goober a couple of minutes ago.

Productivity is work produced per unit of time. Increasing the amount of time may (or may not) increase the total amount of work done, but it does not increase the amount per unit of time. In fact, chances are, it lowers productivity.

Dick

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