Summary:
According to Fried's talks, many companies spend a lot of money to offer needs for workers as table, internet and computer to make the office the best place to work. So they expect the workers to come every day to do great work. But the fact is different, when we are talking with other and ask them where they will go to do any work, they will rather to finish it in a coffee shop, library or any places outside the office. Also, other people will chose to finish the work at night or in the morning. The reason is people get distraction at work. He also says that why do we expect people to work well if they been interrupt it all day. Mangers say they do not want their employers to work at home because of the distractions. Also, they often think that the really distractions at work are things like Facebook and YouTube, so they banned these website. In fact the real problems are the manger and meetings. Meeting is the most boring things for the workers and they have to talk about things that they suppose to do it later. Some suggestions to make the office better place to work, manger should pick one day that workers should not speak together, also, change the way of communication from face to face and use email. The last one is if boss has the power for the meeting, he should cancel it he will find everything is fine.
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Respond:
Jason Fried's speech made me interesting to watch it. Because he is talking about the most important thing in our life, if we do not have a work we cannot live normally, I thought the speaker will talk about the problems in the work in a different way. But he focused in mangers and bosses' distractions, he thinks that they are making the employers confuse if they ask him about what they have finish in the work. I am not sure if his opinion is right or wrong because we have to ask ourselves are we going to work hard without manger or boss. Maybe I disagree with his idea, because every worker should have a leader or boss, the job is like a country and the boss like the prime minster, so the country will have a trouble without prime minster. And in my cause when I was working in newspaper in my country I choose to work in the office than work in any places like home or coffee shop.
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3 comments:
I kind of agree with your respond Ali. I think if the employees know their jobs very well than they are not going to have any problem. Having an expensive office or equipment is not going to help the employees to work better. The managers have very important role in their business too; they should put themselves in their employee’s situation and find the problems .Also the work environment should be friendlier and have more fun. This way the people can enjoy their work better. The mangers should discuss their problem that there are facing in their office with their own employees and ask their opinion about it. If we involve the employees and ask them what they think we can have a more successful business and always two minds are better than one mind.
Thank you Alireza for your comment
I like your response Ali. I'm curious, why did you choose to work at the office and not at home? How was it better? You don't really explain.
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