Why work doesn’t happen at work
This talk is by Jason Fried co-founder of 37 Signals talking at TED MidWest 2010 about the hurdles ofgetting work done in the average office. Jason makes some good points about how working in offices can be counter productive due to interruptions and unnecessary meetings.
I’ve noticed a trend over the years that the most productive individuals in the office tend to either arrive before everyone else or stay late after everyone else leaves to get quiet interruption free time to get stuff done. I’ve also yet to meet a programmer who was more productive in an high interruption environment.
I know of at least one development team that has banned meetings on certain days of the week for their engineers and before I started working at home I used to block off time in my calender to prevent my days being fragmented by meetings.
Working at home I find I have the opposite problem and I need to set alarms to remind me to take breaks…
