![]() ![]() (George makes a frustrated face and put’s his hand on his forehead)Įlaine: Yeah, you do! He looks very busy.Īllowing employees to work from home spares us from having to make the George Costanza “frustrated-busy face,” but it doesn't address the biggest problem with the 9–5 When you look annoyed all the time, people think that you’re busy. George: Right now, I sit around pretending that i’m busy. George Costanza from Seinfield provided some of the best career advice on succeeding in a 9–5 office workplace Writing reports, helping co-workers, customer service, closing sales, the stuff that actually adds value to your employer. Productivity means getting important stuff done.Activity means doing stuff, regardless of whether or not the stuff you are doing adds any value to your employer. ![]() Kill the “9–5” work structureĪs Tim Ferris outlines in his book “ The 4-Hour workweek,” the 9–5 office culture incentives activity over productivity. That is awesome we need to applaud them for that, and I hope more companies follow their lead.īut, if we really want to transform the concept of work and energize employees, working from anywhere isn’t enough. The Spotify announcement will allow its employees that same luxury even after the pandemic is over. ![]() That is time I can spend working on my side hustle, playing with my son, or sleeping (if I wasn’t a new parent.) Working from home has given me 3 hours or 19% of my waking weekday hours back to me. These days I can roll out of bed at 8:15, grab a cup of coffee, and head to my home office in the basement. Since the pandemic began, I’ve been working at home full-time. ![]() I would spend 70% of my waking weekday hours traveling to or sitting in my office. Factor in 8 hours for sleep, and that bring me to a sobering fact Add in the 8+ hours spent at the office, which adds up to 11 hours per day. That’s 3 hours a day or spent getting to and from work. Then I would spend an hour driving back home at the end of the day. When I was working in the office five days a week, I used to get up at 6:30 AM, spend an hour getting ready, drive an hour to the office, and start work at 8:30 AM. We spend half our lives in a crappy office building Office work culture leads to pointless “ busy work.”.We spend way too much time in the office.Here’s the thing about working 9–5 in an office The problem with the 9–5 office work structure In this article, I discuss the two steps to transform our concept of work getting out of the office and killing the 9–5 work structure. Spotify’s new Working From Anywhere policy is a massive leap forward towards creating a workforce that is more happy, productive, and content. Why can't workers have their cake and eat it too? Why can’t we have a steady 9–5 paycheck without spending most of our waking lives driving to or sitting in an office building? We can either choose a steady paycheck and an arbitrary and inefficient 9–5 office work structure or entrepreneurship, which grants the freedom to work when and where we want but is a stressful way to earn a living. I’ve always been frustrated by the trade-off we have been forced to make as workers. There is no greater example of this than the trend of how and where we work. They even went so far as to say they would support employees with a co-working membership if they chose to work remotely but still wanted an office.Īs I’ve discussed in the past, the pandemic has acted as an accelerant and pushed many trends in the economy forward a decade in the span of a year. Last week Spotify announced their “ Working From Anywhere” plan, allowing workers to choose to work at the office, home, or wherever they like. ![]()
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