The future culture of work
This is a very long presentation about work policies at Netflix but you can skim through it pretty fast.
I’d love it if I could get my company to adopt some of the freedoms seen here. 80% of my job is done on the computer (reports, CAD, reports, planning tests) and I can work on it anywhere. But I’m not allowed to. Once I even got yelled at for working from home for an afternoon. The reasoning? “That isn’t allowed because then everyone would want to do it.”
I tend to get “PMS” about my job, but overall I enjoy the work a lot. I just know I’d be a lot more efficient if I didn’t feel trapped in a cubicle all day long (not to mention constant interruptions).
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I'm a 30-something year old girl originally from upstate NY and now living in central Virginia. My background is in mechanical engineering and I worked full time as an engineer for 8 years. In 2010 I quit my job and started a laser engraving business.
I lost my hearing at age 14 and have been using hearing aids since then. In April 2009 I received my first cochlear implant. That went really well so in December 2009 I got the second. The CIs are what prompted me to start writing publicly - but I try to cover other things as well.
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I think most companies don’t trust their own employees enough to act this way. I believe it ends up being a self-fulfilling prophesy.
Yes, a cubicle can be crazy-making! The old building was terrible.
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Yep, exactly… but it shouldn’t be hard to know whether people are being productive or not… and if they’re not, why are you paying them? But instead of managers actually knowing what people are accomplishing they just worry about hours and presenteeism. It’s happen everywhere I’ve worked, so not really calling out my present location (I can’t imagine working all day in a cube in the old building!)
Here’s another video related…
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Hi,
I’ve been activated almost 2 months and a week ago my employer moved to a new location with really really bad and open acoustics. Do you think that researcher at Mayo Clinic or anywhere else might have answers? So far I have a suggestion of getting permission to place a large piece of batting above to absorb the sounds.
Here – rather: http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_pink_on_motivation.html
PS – I LOVE how TED captions all their videos!! :):)
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