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| Hearsay: |
You’re going to cost us our audience! Technology is killing the workday. Hm. And here I thought it was lack of inherited work ethic.
Workers completed two-thirds of their work in an average day last year, down from about three-quarters in a 1994 study, according to research conducted for Day-Timers, an East Texas, Pennsylvania-based maker of organizational products.
The biggest culprit is the technology that was supposed to make work quicker and easier, experts say.
Um, ha ha. Oh, I get what they’re saying! By this, of course, they don’t mean the web, dear readers, they mean… um… ha ha… your email. Which is why you should only communicate with the outside world through our discussion boards. I’m really just thinking of you.
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February 24th, 2006 at 10:18 am
The article fails to explore whether the amount of work expected by the average worker has changed in that same period. This, to my mind, makes the entire thing an exercise in Chicken Little-esque fear-mongering. “Productivity is falling! Productivity is falling!”
In the spirit of the article, they could have covered the balance issue without sacrificing their doom-sayer skew. I’m sure technology can also be blamed for the death of the steno-pool, Gestettners and the 3-martini lunch.
Roll it all together and you can blame computers for giving everybody so much more to do, and then robbing them of the time to do it.
Maybe I should write an article….
February 24th, 2006 at 2:59 pm
Jefficus, I think you just did!