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November 30, 2007
'Tis the Season for Self-Serving Productivity Surveys
Times Online: Top 14 spurious productivity surveys:
"Last week I wrote about workplace productivity, and claimed barely a week passes without someone somewhere publishing an outlandish, pr-inspired survey supposedly exposing a way in which workers waste time. Eager to maximise my own productivity, and eager to minimise the workplace productivity of timesonline readers, I kept a record of the weirdest ones as I did my research, and am now delighted to present a list of the top 14 most ridiculous productivity surveys, as presented in the press, in reverse order of spuriousness. Somehow '14' seems an apt number for an arena that routinely sees the production of bizarrely precise estimates."
All the little Orwells in the security industry thrive on "foo will cost you n dollars per year in lost bar" studies to show that your boss needs some new tool to better control what you do or look at on the job. Since it's the holiday season, the annual "People shopping online at work will cost their employers ..." studies are rolling out as a reason for employers to deploy filters and otherwise do their part to create an over-regulated, overbearing, IT panopticon.
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