[AlisdairSH]

Except managers do reward hours vs work.

I had a VP once who decreed that the "Productivity" rating on our annual review was to based on the average hours/week spent at work. To be deemed "Productive", a developer had to average 45+ hours/week. This had the effect of screwing over two subsets of developers: 1 - Those that were very efficient and got their work done in a reasonable amount of time. 2 - Those that didn't spend hours/week on timetracking, and just stuck on 40/week by default And rewarded those who were inefficient and took 50 hours to do 40 hours worth of work.

[yogo]

Sounds like you do all (or most so that you always have something light to finish off the day) of your work when your mind is rested, you are energized and focused, then read and participate in online communities like HN for the rest of the time. It should always be about the work that is done, but I think the big challenge most of the time is how do you measure the work that is done in certain businesses/industries.

[joelle]

That's horrendous.