Richard Baker wrote:
> The situation I've been considering as my baseline example is a software
> company. The definition of "more productive" would then be the
> production of software at higher rates, with fewer bugs, and at lower
> cost. In the more general case there would obviously be different
> definitions of "more productive", but they all come down to doing the
> core of one's job more effectively. I suppose in academia, that would
> mean improving some mixture of teaching undergraduates, supervising
> grad students, producing widely cited papers and so on.
I asked my husband about the software company productivity. His
recommendations:
Offices with doors
Offices with windows
Big monitors (I think we're talking a minimum of 21" here)
A big break room
A full-size couch in the break room for either hanging out on break
or for crashing out if a short nap is needed (if he has a 15-minute nap,
that improves his productivity for the rest of the afternoon by a
measurable amount)
Julia
