The psychological importance of wasting time

Re:The psychological importance of wasting time by drvdevd on Monday May 01, 2017 @09:43AM (#14237382)

This is an important point. I would personally allow it, because I believe the fundamental premise to be true. In my experience, too much time in the "standard work day" is wasted on looking like you're working, at all levels of the hierarchy of most businesses.

OTOH, I would demand some sort of measurable feedback and/or self evaluation from employees to determine which schedule works best for them.

Maybe that's just too much overhead for a larger team, though. Perhaps at a certain point in size, the productivity gains VS overhead of "managing" more flexible schedules, become minimal.

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Re:The psychological importance of wasting time by RealityVoid on Tuesday May 02, 2017 @05:11PM (#14250647)

I don't think this works, because, frankly, in a team, the usually is a guy who picks up other people's slack and, because he's that good, he really works 8h of the day. The bigger the company, the more true this is because it grings up inefficiencies that need to be filled with personell time.

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