Best Buy goes clockless

9th Engineer · 12-06-2006, 02:19 PM

I think it'll make the decisions regarding advancement easier, not harder. Whether or not someone is at their desk 4 or 12 hours a day is not applicable to the decision anymore. The employee who is more productive with less working hours is the better employee now, no more lounging around wasting time so you can stay late to make the upper management think you're working hard.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-06-2006, 04:03 PM

It's a trick. Change the thinking from hours to productivity then assign goals and deadlines that require most people to work 50 or more hours every week. But nobody can complain about the hours, they're working, because hours have disappeared from the company vocabulary.

9th Engineer · 12-06-2006, 04:09 PM

Well the best way to do it would probably to assign more work than can reasonably be done on regular time, and then let people do more, less, or toe the line as they see fit. That way it'll be obvious who can be cut and who deserves a raise.

12-06-2006, 02:19 PM	#1
9th Engineer Bioengineer and aspiring lawer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 872	I think it'll make the decisions regarding advancement easier, not harder. Whether or not someone is at their desk 4 or 12 hours a day is not applicable to the decision anymore. The employee who is more productive with less working hours is the better employee now, no more lounging around wasting time so you can stay late to make the upper management think you're working hard. __________________ The most valuable renewable resource is stupidity.

12-06-2006, 04:03 PM	#2
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	It's a trick. Change the thinking from hours to productivity then assign goals and deadlines that require most people to work 50 or more hours every week. But nobody can complain about the hours, they're working, because hours have disappeared from the company vocabulary. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

12-06-2006, 04:09 PM	#3
9th Engineer Bioengineer and aspiring lawer Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 872	Well the best way to do it would probably to assign more work than can reasonably be done on regular time, and then let people do more, less, or toe the line as they see fit. That way it'll be obvious who can be cut and who deserves a raise. __________________ The most valuable renewable resource is stupidity.

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