Observation And Work In The Workplace

This presentation fits into our class because it talks about why people at work are not as productive as they should be. This is important because many bosses assume that many of their workers are wasting time online and on social media such as Facebook and Twitter when in actuality, the biggest productivity killers are meetings and managers (M&Ms). In addition, it is also important because so many companies waste money on building offices when many people do not even prefer working at an office in their company. It shows that something needs to be changed and how the money used to build offices should be used for something more resourceful and impactful. The speaker’s major point that I found most interesting and surprising is the idea that …show more content…
For example, when you are woken up in the middle of your sleep, you are more likely to wake up sleepy. He points out that the work place offices are just for workplace moments and not for the general workplace. The real problems in the modern office today are managers and meetings (M&Ms). Some ideas that he said that could be incorporated into the workplace are things like no talking Thursday, passive models of communications such as e-mail or instant messaging and to just cancel meetings. I enjoyed his presentation and how he puts the idea that work and sleep act in the same manner because it makes it more relatable and it makes it easier to understand since everyone has to sleep and everyone has to work. Short bursts of time to get things done at work are not effective either. Correspondingly, I liked how he pointed out examples that are concise and easy to understand. For example, he states that with creative people such as designers, they need long sections of uninterrupted time in order to get something done. He states that one should not be able to ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes and really have that person think about that problem and provide quality …show more content…
In addition, he states why meetings and managers are bad and why they do not allow people to be productive but he also does not state the important things that managers and meetings do. What I would like to have learned upon the speaker is why workers have not tried to change things and why workers are not rising up and telling businesses that productivity cannot happen at work. I believe that it will save researchers and businesses the time and money. The three questions I would ask the presenter is why he thinks bosses are so quick to assume that the internet is the most common distraction rather than everything else in the office, how could a boss manage all their employees if they were all able to work in an environment outside of their vision and if meetings were eliminated in a workplace, what would be the best way for a boss to talk to everyone needed and discuss everything that needs to be said when things are urgent. I would ask these questions because I would like to know more about how a company can help its employees become more productive at work and alternative ways on how different methods can be implemented in order to make a company more successful. In addition, when something in the workforce is changed, I would like to know what goes through the mind of a boss and what they are thinking about during these type