Measuring Your Productivity

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
I just think it's interesting how quickly this has come
on and how stupidly a lot of it's being applied,
for instance, getting into the article. Uh the subhead is
across the industries and incomes. More employees are being tracked,
recorded and ranked. What has gained, companies say is efficiency
and accountability. What is lost? And they start with this

(00:20):
woman named Carol, who is a longtime finance executive, got
a new gig senior VP, making a lot of money,
but our first paycheck seemed low. Her new employer, which
used extensive monitoring software on all its on its all
remote workers, paid them only for the minutes when the
system detected active work. Worse, Carol noticed that the software

(00:42):
did not come close to capturing her labor offline work
doing math problems on paper, reading print outs, thinking, thinking
didn't register and required approval as manual time radiologists. That's
a good profession. See scoreboards showing their inactivity time and
how their productivity stacks up against colleagues. Companies including JP

(01:05):
Morgan they tracking, They actually put up there how you're
doing against your co workers? Yes? Oh wow? JP Morgan
tracking how employees spend their days from making phone calls
to composing emails become routine practice. Uh. In Britain, Barclay's
Bank was sending prodding messengers to workers like not enough

(01:25):
time in the zone yesterday. They stopped that actually because
it cost an uproar. But United Healthcare Group low keyboard
activity can affect compensation and sack your bonuses have really
low keyboard activity. Not what did that phrase? They're not
enough compon not enough, not enough time in the zone yesterday.
That's not what your mom said. Yeah, we didn't even

(01:46):
get into cameras and software. The tracks where your eyes
are looking. That sort of thing haven't even begun. It's
crazy cameras that keep tracking where your eyes are looking.
Absolutely holy crap. I just looked away from the screen
to look at Jack. Oh wait a minute, that's the
clocks sticking. That's not prodictive time. Wow. How and how

(02:09):
twitchy would this make you? Yeah, you'll be twitching all
the time, wetting yourself. Start strong and jetty.