Why Do Employers Tell Us When to Work?
Most US office workers clock a M-F schedule, and relax on the weekend.
But if you could set your own schedule, what would you choose?
Tammy Erickson believes the days when an employer dictates your work days and hours is becoming outdated. How come we can't work when we want to?
"The idea of a defined work week makes great sense if you're performing synchronous tasks â€" activities in which everyone has to be there all together to get the work done. Clearly in an industrial economy, the idea that everyone needs to be there pretty much at the same time is key... But how much of our work today, really, is synchronous?"Less and less, she writes in Do We Need Weekends? on Harvard Business. Read her thought-provoking post, and her idea on what to do about the seemingly non-stop use of meetings.
Would you prefer to name the days, hours, and location of when you work? Or does a steady routine work best for you?