From: "Thees Peereboom" 

Antti,

AFAIK, the real gain in productivity is when you switch from manual work to
your first automated system. From there on, the gain is mainly in
'making things look better' than actually improving your productivity. All
this fonts and other DTP possibilities - what do they add to the contents
of your document? Nothing, but usually more time is spent in improving the
looks of a document than improving the contents.

Of course, emailing is easier than faxing - takes less time for you to send
an email than a fax. Result is that you send cc's to everybody imaginable,
far more than you would ever send a fax to and thus destroying the gain in
'productivity' by having all those other cc's reading something they could
do very well without.

Lot of writings on the subject - usually interesting stuff.

- Thees Peereboom

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 05:17:58 +0100, Antti Kurenniemi
 wrote:

> "Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
> news:hoj622pd3365epsal9gfp1fkbhhcho3685{at}4ax.com...
>>
>> March 24, 1995, he was here in a Microsoft press release:
>>
>> "'I am more productive by an order of magnitude with Windows 95 than
>> with Windows 3.11,' said Rob Enderle, industry analyst at Dataquest..."
>>
>>
>> When I asked him if he now works 4 hour weeks, instead of the usual 40,
>> he didn't reply.
>
> I've wondered about that a few times myself. I mean, every upgrade makes
> me
> more productive than ever before, so I must be something like ten million
> times as productive as I was when I first started working, but where the
> heck does all that productivity go... Maybe I've spent all the
> productivity
> gain installing all the updates?
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi
>
>



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