DeskTime, a firm that automates time sheets, posted an absurd infographic yesterday. This snip made me chuckle:
Most people I know think using the net makes them more productive. “Socializing with co-workers” is the primary way they learn things. Probably some of the long lunches and breaks occur because people learn more in coffee rooms and cafeterias than in classrooms. These are time-wasters?
As for the applications, my colleague Jane Hart’s Top 100 Tools for Learning 2011 has Twitter in the #1 slot and YouTube as #2. Unproductive? I don’t think so.
And email and Word are productive? Give me a break.
I would really, really hate to work for these guys.
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While this is (of course) generally out-of-touch and ridiculous – I think it’s also worth mentioning these folks can’t even spell. Last I checked “applications” still had a “c” in it.
Further, the world they describe is one in which employees are dehumanized automatons with no knowledge outside of the TPS reports on their desk. No one wants to work somewhere like that.
I notice they didn’t waste any time proofreading their infographic. Maybe nobody has told them that Word has a spell checker. OOOps!
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