Why work doesn't happen at work | Jason Fried

ジェイソン・フリード：なぜ職場で仕事ができないのか

翻訳: Keiichi Kudo 校正: ツカモト ニキ

これは仕事についての話です

So I'm going to talk about work;

specifically, why people can't seem to get work done at work,

特にどうして私たちは職場で

仕事ができないのか

which is a problem we all kind of have.

という問題について話します

But let's sort of start at the beginning.

まずは最初から説明しましょう

So, we have companies and non-profits and charities

企業やＮＰＯや慈善団体

and all these groups that have employees or volunteers of some sort.

様々な組織があり

そこには従業員や

ボランティアなどの人々が働いています

And they expect these people who work for them

雇用主はここで働く人々から

素晴らしい仕事を期待している

to do great work --

I would hope, at least.

そう思いたいです

At least good work, hopefully, at least it's good work --

最低限でも良い仕事を

hopefully great work.

素晴らしい仕事を期待しています

And so what they typically do is they decide

そこで彼らは通常

that all these people need to come together in one place to do that work.

従業員を一か所にまとめて

そこで仕事をさせます

So a company, or a charity, or an organization of any kind,

つまり企業、団体などの組織では

unless you're working in Africa, if you're really lucky to do that --

アフリカへの異動があるぐらい

ラッキーでない限り

most people have to go to an office every day.

普通の人は毎日職場へ通勤します

And so these companies,

そこで会社は

they build offices.

オフィスを設けます

They go out and they buy a building, or they rent a building,

物件を購入 あるいは賃借し

or they lease some space,

または部屋をリースして

and they fill this space with stuff.

そこにいろいろ詰め込みます

They fill it with tables, or desks,

机 あるいはデスク

chairs, computer equipment,

イス 　コンピュータ

ソフトウェア

software, Internet access,

インターネット環境

maybe a fridge, maybe a few other things,

もしかしたら冷蔵庫などのおまけも

and they expect their employees, or their volunteers,

そして従業員が毎日そこに通勤して

素晴らしい仕事をすることを期待します

to come to that location every day to do great work.

It seems like it's perfectly reasonable to ask that.

ごく当たり前な事に聞こえます

However, if you actually talk to people

ここで質問を出します

みなさんもどうぞ

and even question yourself, and you ask yourself,

自分自身に問いかけてください

where do you really want to go when you really need to get something done?

『仕事に集中したい時、どこに行きますか？』

You'll find out that people don't say what businesses think they would say.

この質問に、人は上司の期待とは

別の回答を出すのです

If you ask people the question:

「仕事に集中したい時にあなたが

Where do you need to go when you need to get something done?

行きたい場所は？」と聞くと

Typically, you get three different kinds of answers.

3種類の答が出ます

One is kind of a place or a location or a room.

一つは部屋や空間

Another one is a moving object,

もう一つは移動手段

and a third is a time.

そして時間です

So here are some examples.

例を出しましょう

I've been asking people this question for about 10 years:

私は10年間この質問を出しています

"Where do you go when you really need to get something done?"

「仕事に集中したい時　どこへ行きますか？」

かえってくる返事はベランダや

I'll hear things like, the porch, the deck, the kitchen.

キッチン

I'll hear things like an extra room in the house,

自宅の空き部屋

地下室

the basement,

the coffee shop, the library.

カフェや図書館など

And then you'll hear things like the train,

それに電車や

a plane, a car -- so, the commute.

飛行機や車 - つまり乗り物

And then you'll hear people say,

そしてこんな答えも聞きます

"Well, it doesn't really matter where I am,

「早朝か深夜 または週末なら

as long as it's early in the morning or late at night or on the weekends."

どこであっても構いません」

オフィスと答える人はほぼゼロ

You almost never hear someone say, "The office."

企業はオフィスと呼ばれる空間にお金をかけ

But businesses are spending all this money on this place called the office,

人々にそこを利用させますが

and they're making people go to it all the time,

誰もそこで仕事をしない

yet people don't do work in the office.

これは何なんだ？

What is that about?

(Laughter)

何故だろう？

Why is that? Why is that happening?

何故こうなったのか？

And what you find out is,

この問題にもう少し踏み込むと

if you dig a little bit deeper, you find out that people --

原因が見えてきます

つまりこういう事です

this is what happens:

People go to work,

人々は職場に行くと

and they're basically trading in their work day

一日の勤務時間を

for a series of "work moments" -- that's what happens at the office.

多くの作業時間に小分けされます

これがオフィスの現状です

You don't have a work day anymore. You have work moments.

「勤務日」が「作業時間」に

オフィスの入り口がシュレッダーで

It's like the front door of the office is like a Cuisinart,

and you walk in and your day is shredded to bits,

一日の時間がバラバラにされるように

こっちで15分　あっちで30分

because you have 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there,

and something else happens, you're pulled off your work,

突然の用事で仕事から引き離され

そしたら20分後に昼休み

then you have 20 minutes, then it's lunch, then you have something else to do ...

その後また別の作業があり

Then you've got 15 minutes, and someone pulls you aside and asks you a question,

15分後、頼みごとをされる

気がつけばもう5時に

and before you know it, it's 5 p.m.,

and you look back on the day,

一日を振り返れば

and you realize that you didn't get anything done.

何もロクにできなかった事に気づく

そんな経験ないですか？

We've all been through this.

We probably went through it yesterday or the day before, or the day before that.

昨日はどうでしたか？

一昨日は、それともその前の日は？

You look back on your day,

夕方になって 「何もしていない！」と気づく

and you're like, "I got nothing done today.

I was at work. I sat at my desk. I used my expensive computer.

仕事には行った

デスクに座り、高いパソコンを使った

I used the software they told me to use.

用意されたソフトウェアを使用した

I went to these meetings I was asked to go to.

出席するべき会議にも出た

I did these conference calls. I did all this stuff.

電話会議もして、こんなにやったのに

But I didn't actually do anything.

実際には何もしていない

I just did tasks.

作業をこなしただけだ

I didn't actually get meaningful work done."

意味のある仕事は何もしていない

And what you find is that, especially with creative people --

そうして気づくのは

designers, programmers, writers, engineers, thinkers --

デザイナーやプログラマや

ライターやエンジニア

思想家などの

that people really need long stretches of uninterrupted time

クリエイティブな仕事には

邪魔がない一定の時間が必要だという事です

to get something done.

You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes

問題に創造的に取り組むのに

and really think about a problem.

15分ではとても無理です

You might have a quick idea,

小手先のアイデアは出てきても

but to be in deep thought about a problem and really consider a problem carefully,

じっくり取り組んで慎重に考え抜くには

you need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

邪魔のない一定の時間が必要となります

And even though the work day is typically eight hours,

勤務時間は通常8時間ですが

how many people here have ever had eight hours to themselves at the office?

実際に8時間集中できる人はいますか？

7時間は？

How about seven hours?

Six? Five? Four?

6？ 5？ 4？

When's the last time you had three hours to yourself at the office?

最近3時間通しで仕事に打ち込めましたか？

Two hours? One, maybe?

2時間は？ 1時間なら？

Very, very few people actually have

邪魔の入らない一定の時間を

long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.

得る人は本当に数人しかいません

And this is why people choose to do work at home,

だから家で仕事をするのを好むのです

or they might go to the office,

あるいはオフィスへ行っても

but they might go to the office really early in the day,

誰もいない早朝か

夜遅くに行く人もいます

or late at night when no one's around,

or they stick around after everyone's left,

又は残業する人、週末出勤する人

or go in on the weekends,

飛行機で仕事をする人

or they get work done on the plane, in the car or in the train,

車や電車で仕事する人もいます

because there are no distractions.

それなら邪魔がないからです

Now there are different kinds of distractions,

別の種類の邪魔が入ったりもしますが

but not the really bad distractions, which I'll talk about in a minute.

特にひどい妨害でもないです

それについても話しましょう

And this whole phenomenon of having short bursts of time to get things done

仕事をしようとする時

ばらけた短時間しか取れないという現象は

reminds me of another thing that doesn't work when you're interrupted,

妨害されるとうまくいかない

別の事と似ています

and that is sleep.

それは睡眠です

I think that sleep and work are very closely related --

睡眠と仕事はよく似ています

別に睡眠中に仕事ができるとか

not because you can work while you're sleeping and sleep while you're working.

仕事をしながら居眠りをするとか

That's not really what I mean.

そういった話ではなく

I'm talking specifically about the fact that sleep and work are phase-based,

睡眠と仕事は

どちらも周期、

またはステージごとに

or stage-based, events.

続く現象だということです

Sleep is about sleep phases, or stages -- some people call them different things.

「周期」と「ステージ」

どちらも意味は同じですが、

There are five of them, and in order to get to the really deep ones,

睡眠には 5 つの段階があります

深く、効果ある安眠を得るためには

the meaningful ones, you have to go through the early ones.

初段階の睡眠を経る必要があります

If you're interrupted while you're going through the early ones --

誰かがぶつかったり

物音がしたりなど

if someone bumps you in bed, or there's a sound, or whatever happens --

妨害が起きると

you don't just pick up where you left off.

眠りなおすのは簡単ではありません

If you're interrupted and woken up,

いきなり起こされたら

you have to start again.

また繰り返しです

So you have to go back a few phases and start again.

初期段階に戻ってまた眠りなおす

And what ends up happening -- you might have days like this

こんな経験をした事はないですか？

朝８時、または７時ごろ

where you wake up at eight or seven in the morning, or whenever you get up,

いつもの時間に起きたのに

and you're like, "I didn't sleep very well.

うーん よく眠れなかったなあ と感じる

I did the sleep thing -- I went to bed, I laid down,

横になって寝る　一応「睡眠」の形はとっても

but I didn't really sleep."

本当の「睡眠が」取れなかったのです

People say you go "to" sleep,

「眠りにつく」と言いますが

but you don't go to sleep, you go towards sleep; it takes a while.

実際は 「眠りに向かっていく」のです

段階を踏むので時間がかかります

You've got to go through phases and stuff,

and if you're interrupted, you don't sleep well.

邪魔が入ると安眠になりません

So does anyone here expect someone to sleep well

一晩中妨害されてもぐっすり眠れる

そんな人がいると思いますか？

if they're interrupted all night?

I don't think anyone would say yes.

多分いないでしょう

Why do we expect people to work well

オフィスで一日中妨害される人たちに

if they're being interrupted all day at the office?

どうやって良い成果が望めるのでしょう？

妨害が入るオフィスでどうやって

How can we possibly expect people to do their job

if they go to the office and are interrupted?

仕事をしろと言えるのでしょうか？

That doesn't really seem like it makes a lot of sense, to me.

無茶苦茶でしょう

So what are the interruptions that happen at the office but not at other places?

では、他の場所では起きない

オフィス内の妨害とは一体何でしょう？

Because in other places, you can have interruptions like the TV,

外の場所にも誘惑はあります

テレビがあったり

or you could go for a walk, or there's a fridge downstairs,

散歩にも出られたり

下には冷蔵庫があったり

or you've got your own couch, or whatever you want to do.

楽になれるソファなど、 自由にできます

If you talk to certain managers, they'll tell you

管理職の方と話してみると

従業員に家で仕事をして欲しくない理由として

that they don't want their employees to work at home

because of these distractions.

こういった妨害の例が出ます

They'll sometimes also say,

他にも、「自分の目の－

－届かない場所にいるなら－

"If I can't see the person, how do I know they're working?"

－ちゃんと仕事をしているか分からない！」

which is ridiculous, but that's one of the excuses that managers give.

馬鹿な話ですが、そう言い訳する上司もいます

And I'm one of these managers. I understand. I know how this goes.

わたし自身もマネージャーです

ちゃんと問題を心得ています

We all have to improve on this sort of thing.

我々が改善していかなくてはなりません

しかし彼らはしばしば誘惑について言及します

But oftentimes they'll cite distractions:

「家で仕事なんてとんでもない」

"I can't let someone work at home.

They'll watch TV, or do this other thing."

「ＴＶを見たり別の事をしているだろう」

It turns out those aren't the things that are distracting,

それらは本当の妨害ではないのです

Because those are voluntary distractions.

そういうのは任意で発生する妨害だからです

You decide when you want to be distracted by the TV,

テレビという誘惑を見るのは本人が選択します

when you want to turn something on,

妨害要因に触れるときは本人が選択します

or when you want to go downstairs or go for a walk.

冷蔵庫や散歩に向かうときも本人の選択

At the office,

オフィスで人々の仕事の中断させる

most of the interruptions and distractions

邪魔や妨害のほとんどは

that really cause people not to get work done are involuntary.

強制的です

So let's go through a couple of those.

例をいくつか出しましょう

Now, managers and bosses will often have you think

マネージャーや上司は

職場での本当の妨害は

that the real distractions at work

are things like Facebook and Twitter

Facebook Twitter

and YouTube and other websites,

Youtube などのサイトであると信じています

and in fact, they'll go so far as to actually ban these sites at work.

そして彼らは

そうしたサイトを職場で禁止します

Some of you may work at places where you can't get to certain sites.

みなさんの職場もこんな感じですか？

ここは中国か？一体どうしてしまったんだ

I mean, is this China? What the hell is going on here?

You can't go to a website at work, and that's the problem?

従業員がツイッターを使うから

仕事の効率が上がらない。

That's why people aren't getting work done,

だから職場のネットへのアクセスが検閲される。

because they're on Facebook and Twitter?

馬鹿げています。問題はそこじゃありません

That's kind of ridiculous. It's a total decoy.

Today's Facebook and Twitter and YouTube,

この場合のFacebook Twitter Youtube は

these things are just modern-day smoke breaks.

現代の「煙草タイム」みたいなものです

No one cared about letting people take a smoke break for 15 minutes 10 years ago,

10年前は一服しに15分間抜け出す人がいても

誰も構いませんでした

so why does anyone care if someone goes to Facebook

それなのにどうして あっちでもこっちでも

or Twitter or YouTube here and there?

Facebook Twitter Youtube などの利用を問題視するのでしょう？

オフィスの本当の問題はここではありません

Those aren't the real problems in the office.

The real problems are what I like to call the M&Ms,

本当の問題は

わたしが M&M's と呼んでいる

the Managers and the Meetings.

マネージャーとミーティングです

Those are the real problems in the modern office today.

現在のオフィスにおける本当の問題です

職場で仕事が片づかない理由が

And this is why things don't get done at work,

it's because of the M&Ms.

この M&M's です

Now what's interesting is,

興味深いことに

if you listen to all the places that people talk about doing work,

仕事をする場所として挙げられた場所ー

like at home, in the car, on a plane, late at night, or early in the morning,

家 車の中 飛行機

あるいは夜や早朝ー

you don't find managers and meetings.

そこには上司や会議もありません

You find a lot of other distractions, but not managers and meetings.

他の誘惑は山ほどありますが 上司や会議はありません

職場にあって他にはないもの

So these are the things that you don't find elsewhere,

それがこの二つです

but you do find at the office.

And managers are basically people whose job it is to interrupt people.

マネージャーとは基本的に

人の邪魔をすることが役なのです

That's pretty much what managers are for. They're for interrupting people.

それが仕事なんですよ、人の邪魔をするのが

They don't really do the work, so they make sure everyone else is doing work,

彼らはあまり仕事をしないので

他の仕事を確認しに来ます。これが妨害となります

which is an interruption.

世界中にはたくさんのマネージャーがいます

We have lots of managers in the world now, and a lot of people in the world,

そしてたくさんの人がいます

and a lot of interruptions by these managers.

世界では毎日上司による邪魔が起こっています

They have to check in: "Hey, how's it going?

「どうだ？どれくらい進んだ？」のような事をいって

Show me what's up." This sort of thing.

見回りにやって来ます

They keep interrupting you at the wrong time,

あなたが金をもらってやっている

仕事の最中に度悪いタイミングで訪れ

while you're actually trying to do something they're paying you to do,

妨害するのです

they tend to interrupt you.

That's kind of bad.

これは良くないですね

But what's even worse is the thing that managers do most of all,

それよりマネージャーが頻繁にやる事

which is call meetings.

それは会議を開く事です

And meetings are just toxic,

職場での一日の中で

terrible, poisonous things

会議とは全く有害で毒々しい

during the day at work.

悪質なものです

(Laughter)

みんな分かっているでしょう

We all know this to be true,

and you would never see a spontaneous meeting called by employees.

従業員が開く会議を見た事ありますか？

そういう仕組みじゃないですよね

It doesn't work that way.

The manager calls the meeting

マネージャーが会議を開き

so the employees can all come together,

従業員がみんな集まります

and it's an incredibly disruptive thing to do to people --

とんでもなく邪魔な行為です

「みんな、ちょっと」

to say, "Hey look,

we're going to bring 10 people together right now and have a meeting.

「ミーティングだ、１０人集まってくれ」

I don't care what you're doing,

「今何をしているなんて関係ない」

you've got to stop doing it, so you can have this meeting."

「とにかく会議だ、今していることは止めて」

I mean, what are the chances that all 10 people are ready to stop?

全員都合よく作業を中断できるのですか？

What if they're thinking about something important, or doing important work?

大事な考え事も？

とても重要な仕事も？

All of a sudden you tell them they have to stop doing that to do something else.

上司が突然、他の事のために

今している事をやめろと言う

So they go into a meeting room, they get together,

そうしてみんなが集まり会議が開かれ

and they talk about stuff that doesn't really matter, usually.

大抵大した事でもない事を話し合うのです

Because meetings aren't work.

会議は仕事ではありません

Meetings are places to go to talk about things

今後実行するべき事について話し合うものです

you're supposed to be doing later.

しかし会議というものは増殖します

But meetings also procreate.

つまり一つの会議が次の会議に繋がり

So one meeting tends to lead to another meeting,

そしてまた次の会議へと繋がっていきます

which leads to another meeting.

There's often too many people in the meetings,

必要以上の人数が会議に参加する事が多いので

組織にとって非常にコストのかかります

and they're very, very expensive to the organization.

Companies often think of a one-hour meeting as a one-hour meeting,

1時間の会議は1時間分でしょうか？

参加者が一人でない限り、それは違います

but that's not true, unless there's only one person.

If there are 10 people, it's a 10-hour meeting, not a one-hour meeting.

10名参加ならそれは10時間に及ぶ会議です

1時間の会議を一回開くために効率いい仕事を

It's 10 hours of productivity taken from the rest of the organization

10時間分奪った結果になるのです

to have this one-hour meeting, which probably should have been handled

そしておそらく本来なら２～３人が

by two or three people talking for a few minutes.

数分で片づけられたはずの会議でしょう

But instead, there's a long scheduled meeting,

なのに会議は長時間の予定で立てられます

because meetings are scheduled the way software works,

スケジュールソフトの通りに

which is in increments of 15 minutes, or 30 minutes, or an hour.

15分 30分 1時間の間隔で時間が分けられます

You don't schedule an eight-hour meeting with Outlook; you can't.

Outlookで8時間の会議を予定したりしません

元々可能なのかは分かりませんが

You can go 15 minutes or 30 minutes or 45 minutes or an hour.

15分 30分 45分 1時間単位でスケジュールでき

And so we tend to fill these times up

そして本当はそれより早く済むはずでも

when things should go really quickly.

この時間単位で予定が決まっていきます

So meetings and managers are two major problems in businesses today,

『会議と上司』が、特にオフィス環境において

今日のビジネスで起こる２大問題なのです。

especially at offices.

These things don't exist outside of the office.

オフィスの外ではこれらは存在しません

So I have some suggestions to remedy the situation.

そこで、この状況を是正するため

いくつかの提案があります

What can managers do --

マネージャー　願わくば

enlightened managers, hopefully --

過ちに気づいたマネージャーができる事

what can they do to make the office a better place for people to work,

最後ではなく最初の選択肢としてオフィスが人々に

so it's not the last resort, but it's the first resort,

仕事をする場所として選ばれるには何をすべきか？

so that people start to say,

人々が「仕事を片づけたいときは

"When I really want to get stuff done, I go to the office."

オフィスへ行きます」 と言うようにするという事です

Because the offices are well-equipped;

オフィスは設備が充実していますし

everything is there for them to do the work.

仕事をするのに必要なものは揃っているはずです

But they don't want to go there right now, so how do we change that?

それでも人々に選ばれない　　ではどうしたら？

ここで紹介したい提案が3つあります

I have three suggestions to share with you.

残り時間も3分なのでちょうど良いですね

I have about three minutes, so that'll fit perfectly.

「カジュアルフライデー」というものをご存知ですね

We've all heard of the Casual Friday thing.

I don't know if people still do that.

今でもやっているか分かりませんが

But how about "No-talk Thursdays?"

それにちなんで「サイレント・サーズデー」です

(Laughter)

例えば

Pick one Thursday once a month,

月に一度ある木曜日を選んで

and cut it in half, just the afternoon -- I'll make it easy for you.

やりやすい様に、その日の午後だけにしましょう

So just the afternoon, one Thursday.

月に一度の木曜日の午後だけです

First Thursday of the month, just the afternoon,

月の最初の木曜日、その午後の時間は

nobody in the office can talk to each other.

オフィスでは誰も互いに話してはいけません

みんな沈黙を守ります

Just silence, that's it.

And what you'll find

それでどうなるかというと

is that a tremendous amount of work gets done

誰も互いに話しかけなければ

when no one talks to each other.

なんと膨大な量の仕事が片づくということです

This is when people actually get stuff done,

これが人々が実際に仕事ができる状況です

is when no one's bothering them or interrupting them.

つまり誰もちょっかいを出したり邪魔をしない

Giving someone four hours of uninterrupted time

従業員にこんな時間を 4時間与えることは

is the best gift you can give anybody at work.

職場で与えうる最高のプレゼントです

コンピューターより

It's better than a computer,

better than a new monitor, better than new software,

新しいモニターやソフトウェアより

or whatever people typically use.

他に仕事で使う道具の何よりも

Giving them four hours of quiet time at the office

オフィスで静かな時間を4時間提供する事は

is going to be incredibly valuable.

とてつもない価値を持ちます

If you try that, I think you'll agree, and hopefully you can do it more often.

お試し頂けたら分かってもらえるでしょう

そして頻度を増やして続けてみて下さい

So maybe it's every other week,

２週間に一度 あるいは

or every week, once a week,

週に一度

afternoons no one can talk to each other.

午後は誰も喋らない時間にします

That's something that you'll find will really, really work.

非常に有効だと分かって頂けますよ

Another thing you can try,

もう一つの提案は

is switching from active communication and collaboration,

肩を叩いて話しかけたり、

会議を開いたりの能動的な

which is like face-to-face stuff -- tapping people on the shoulder,

コミュニケーションや関わりの代わりに

メールやメッセンジャー

saying hi to them, having meetings,

and replace that with more passive models of communication,

その他のコラボレーションツールを使った

より受動的なコミュニケーションへ

using things like email and instant messaging,

or collaboration products, things like that.

切り替えることです。

Now some people might say email is really distracting,

メールやチャットなんて仕事の邪魔だ

I.M. is really distracting, and these other things are really distracting,

そう言う人もいるでしょう

こういったものは確かに邪魔ですが

but they're distracting at a time of your own choice and your own choosing.

自分自身のタイミングで対応できます

メールのように上司はログアウトできません

You can quit the email app; you can't quit your boss.

You can quit I.M.;

メッセンジャーは終了できても

you can't hide your manager.

上司は非表示にできません

You can put these things away,

ツールはいったん退けておき

and then you can be interrupted on your own schedule, at your own time,

自分自身のスケジュールで物事を進め

when you're available, when you're ready to go again.

都合のいい時に対応できます

仕事は、睡眠と同じように段階をとるもの

Because work, like sleep, happens in phases.

So you'll be going up, doing some work,

皆仕事モードになって作業ができ

and then you'll come down from that work,

区切りのいい所で少し休めば

and then maybe it's time to check that email or I.M.

メールなどをチェックできるでしょう

There are very, very few things that are that urgent,

緊急事項や、今すぐに応える必要のある

that need to happen, that need to be answered right this second.

事は本当に稀です

So if you're a manager,

マネージャーの皆さん

start encouraging people to use more things like I.M. and email

従業員にメッセンジャーやメール

and other things that someone can put away

その他のツールなど、対応するタイミングを

and then get back to you on their own schedule.

自分で選べるものの利用を推奨してください

And the last suggestion I have is that,

そして最後の提案は

もし予定された会議があり

if you do have a meeting coming up,

if you have the power, just cancel it.

あなたに権限があるなら

とりあえず中止しましょう

Just cancel that next meeting.

(Laughter)

Today's Friday, usually people have meetings on Monday.

多分来週の月曜日ですね

キャンセルしましょう

Just don't have it.

I don't mean move it;

延期するのではなく

I mean just erase it from memory, it's gone.

なかった事にしましょう

And you'll find out that everything will be just fine.

それでも問題ない事が分かるでしょう

All these discussions and decisions you thought you had to make

来週月曜日の朝９時に

予定していた話し合いや決断は

at this one time at 9 a.m. on Monday,

just forget about them, and things will be fine.

忘れましょう。それでも全てうまくいきます

自由な朝を迎え、自分の頭を使えるでしょう

People will have a more open morning, they can actually think.

そして必要だと思っていたことが

You'll find out all these things you thought you had to do,

実際には必要なかったと気づくでしょう

you don't actually have to do.

以上がみなさんに考えて頂きたかった

So those are just three quick suggestions I wanted to give you guys to think about.

ちょっとした提案でした

そしてこれらの提案が

I hope that some of these ideas were at least provocative enough

マネージャー、上司、事業主

for managers and bosses and business owners

主催者や責任者の方々にとって

and organizers and people who are in charge of other people,

自分の関与を少し抑えて

to think about laying off a little bit,

人々に時間を与える事について

and giving people more time to get work done.

少し考えてもらえる機会だったと願います

I think it'll all pay off in the end.

きっと最後はうまくいきます

So, thanks for listening.

ありがとうございました

(Applause)

(拍手)