I exported the Excel to CSV and AWKed all the updates by the end of the day. This was neither the first nor the last time where a Japanese employer was not entirely thrilled with my definition of productivity, since that meant they had to find another month of work for that guy.
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“What?” Imagine an organization whose output it diffuse but whose inputs are known. A properly performing manager has a team of people who are always working a little bit too hard. If anyone has time free, that’s indicative of mismanagement, right?
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This is a mechanism by which organizations become not just indifferent about but actively hostile towards productivity improvements. (This is not limited to Japanese firms; one could point to a spectrum of US organizations with similar incentive structures. Public schools, etc.)
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