How do you count office productivity

• Simon Dean

  26 Nov 05, 15:22

  1)No of hours work
  
  2)Work done in the shortest time as possible
  
  I choose 2), working longer does not equate to more work being done.I would rather have my colleagues do more work in 6 hours compared to 3/4 of the work done in 8 hours.
  
  Tell me what do you think?
• the Bear

  26 Nov 05, 15:30

  i think it's productivity = work done/no. of bosses
  
  
• ShutterBug

  26 Nov 05, 16:49

  Office Productivity in my opinion is - every employee must know what he or she is responsible for, and does his or her work AUTOMATICALLY, without prompting, hinting, or even ORDERING!
  
  Puntuality is number one importance to me. Even if a person is productive and gets work done, I'd ask the person to go fly a kite if he/she is late for one week continuously!
  
  
• huiz

  26 Nov 05, 17:08

  Originally posted by Simon Dean:

  1)No of hours work
  
  2)Work done in the shortest time as possible
  
  I choose 2), working longer does not equate to more work being done.I would rather have my colleagues do more work in 6 hours compared to 3/4 of the work done in 8 hours.
  
  Tell me what do you think?

  number 2 sounds like efficiency to me...
  
  i will add in 'useful' work done in shortest time.
• Sleeping Forest

  26 Nov 05, 17:09

  wk done/sgforums*msn = productivity
• Hydro

  26 Nov 05, 17:16

  http://www.talkingcock.com/html/article.php?sid=1802
  
  Nowsaday, Gahmen and our bosses keep asking us to give 100% or more in whatever we do. ButÂ… exactly what is 100%? How can you give more than 100%? When people say theyÂ’re giving more than 100%, what do they mean? What if you thought you were giving 102% but actually only gave 99%? So what do you have to do in order to make sure youÂ’re giving 100% or more?
  
  We asked the mathematicians in the Political Calculations Department of NUS to share with us their formula for success in Singapore:
  
  First of all, take the alphabet:
  A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
  
  Assign numerical values to each alphabet, e.g.
  
  A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, D = 4, E = 5, F = 6, G = 7, H = 8, I = 9, J = 10,
  K = 11, L = 12, M = 13, N = 14, O = 15, P = 16, Q = 17, R = 18,
  S = 19, T = 20, U = 21, V = 22, W = 23, X = 24, Y = 25, Z = 26
  
  Then:
  
  S+T+U+D+Y = 19+20+21+4+25 = 89%
  
  H+A+R+D+W+O+R+K = 8+1+18+4+23+15+18+11 = 98%
  
  So those wonÂ’t work! On the other hand:
  
  A+T+T+I+T+U+D+E = 1+20+20+9+20+21+4+5 = 100%
  
  B-U-L-L-S-H-I-T 2+21+12+12+19+8+9+20 = 103%
  
  N+E+P+O+T+I+S+M = 14+5+16+15+20+9+19+13 = 111%
  
  But check out how far kissing ass will get you:
  
  K+I+S+S+I+N+G+A+S+S = 11+9+19+19+9+14+7+1+19+19 = 127%!!!
  
  So itÂ’s now proven with mathematical certainty that while study and hard work can get you near 100%, itÂ’s attitude that gets you there, while bullshit, nepotism and kissing ass will take you the furthest. Q.E.D.!