The Schedule Showdown: Maker vs Manager
- balajimail9
- 3 days ago
- 1 min read
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The threat to maker’s schedules in the new normal The hybrid and remote workplace are built on the foundation of virtual meetings and instant communication since these processes lend to every business process, be it onboarding new talent, planning and launching new products, building teams, and ensuring business continuity. These virtual meetings cause the collision between the schedules of makers and managers, oftentimes demanding that makers oblige to managers’ schedules. Unfortunately, meetings are a risk to makers’ time, productivity, and satisfaction. Research from apa.org shows that it takes at least 25 minutes to get into a state of focussed work and flow and any context switches affect an individual’s productivity, leading to up to a 40% dip in productivity. In addition to risking a loss in productivity, when creators have to conform to a manager’s schedule, they lose the time needed to create and become unsatisfied. Sometimes, the lack of time to complete projects leads them to work extra hours and can cause burnout. This is why makers dread meetings. Many engineers, developers, and writers say that even a single meeting at 2 PM would lead them to not start a project at 12 PM because they know they cannot start a project unless they have long and uninterrupted work time.
Let the makers...make and managers manage
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