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Re:Have laptops killed the desktop? (Dell closing factory in... by umjames on Wednesday April 02, 2008 @03:42PM (#153279)
How about the evidence of actual work produced? The facetime model is seriously broken. It doesn't promote productivity, it actually decreases it when employees figure out how to falsify the results.

http://www.paulgraham.com/opensource.html should be required reading.

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Re:Have laptops killed the desktop? (Dell closing factory in... by antiismist on Wednesday April 02, 2008 @04:55PM (#153338)
Preaching to the choir, I agree with you.

What I am saying is that gathering evidence of actual work produced takes a long time and is hard to do. It might take a couple months to figure out if someone who is only at his desk for 4 hours a day is doing good work on a problem, or merely lazy.

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