Interesting Article on 9-to-5 Extinction
http://www.pickthebrain.com/blog/why-the-9-to-5-office-worker-will-become-a-thing-of-the-past/
Although this isn’t from my usual sources, I found this article (purely someone’s opinion) to be very interesting. It’s not that I can’t concentrate for eight hours or more in a day (if I couldn’t, then I wouldn’t be working full-time and doing my MBA, along with my music and arts hobbies), however, I feel that I am most productive in the first four hours that I am in the office. After lunch, I enjoy a shorter period of about two hours of solid concentration and productivity. So the question is, what am I doing when my concentration isn’t at its highest? I find that I organize my work. Just organizing my files, cleaning up my emails, and making “To Do” lists and the more administrative tasks are good things for me at these times when my production ability starts to waver. I think that these spurts of intense productivity are just as effective as doing a constant, steady stream of medium-level production.
I also think that I would be a beneficiary of telecommuting in my current role. As one of our business managers said in an informal meeting, if your job is mainly a production job, peppered with meetings for project and planning work, then telecommuting is a good idea. Especially if you have other familial or educational responsibilities, in my opinion. For example, we are moving into our first home (don’t have kids yet, but still is an undertaking). I would love to be a telecommuter, so that I could pack things here and there while I work. (I am a fully functioning multitask machine – I think I could handle that much!) And in case anyone needs me, I am a phone call or IM away. Simple. Right? I guess it really isn’t, though…
Or why does it take corporate America so long to adapt to our 21st century (e-)culture?
