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Even if you’re the most ‘Slave To The Temple Of Being Busy’ person in the world and/or are totally drowning in deliverables, you’d probably admit that Fridays aren’t that productive for you at work. I’ve been working in different types of jobs for 12 years now. I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone accomplish anything notable or productive after about 11:55am on a given Friday. Hell, in the summers we mostly just blow the day completely off and no one really even cares.
Here’s the thing, though: we’re (supposedly) coming up on this generation of the workforce where people want real-time, continuous feedback and they want to blow up performance reviews so that instead of once-a-year-and-everyone-bitches, it’s a bit more organic. This might never really happen, but you’d assume any “future of work” discussions have to be somewhat tangible. We moved from a totally industrial and product economy to a knowledge and platform economy. Can we really make people work the same way and treat them the same way? Pressure busts pipes, you know?
Here’s an idea, though: what if you took Friday — which is a jack-off day for a lot of people as is — and restructured it around the idea of “trying to talk to your employees” and “have organic conversations.” Fast Company kinda gets it:
Every manager knows she should spend time with direct reports…
