Why work doesn't happen at work | Jason Fried

Translator: Rok Preseren Reviewer: Tilen Pigac - EFZG

Torej, govoril bom o delu,

So I'm going to talk about work;

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

natančneje, zakaj ljudje ne morejo

delati na delovnem mestu,

which is a problem we all kind of have.

kar je težava, ki jo imamo vsi.

But let's sort of start at the beginning.

Naj začnem na začetku.

So, we have companies and non-profits and charities

Pomislimo na podjetja, dobrodelne organizacije,

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

nevladne organizacije, vse organizacije,

ki imajo zaposlene

ali prostovoljce.

And they expect these people who work for them

Organizacije pričakujejo, da bodo zaposleni

odlično opravili delo --

to do great work --

I would hope, at least.

upam, da to pričakujejo.

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

Vsaj dobro opravili, upam, da vsaj to --

hopefully great work.

če se da, pa opravili odlično delo.

And so what they typically do is they decide

Organizacije se ponavadi odločijo,

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

da naj bodo zaposleni zbrani na enem mestu,

medtem ko delajo.

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

Podjetje, dobrodelna ustanova ali druga organizacija

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

torej pričakuje -- razen če ne delate v Afriki,

če imate to srečo seveda --

most people have to go to an office every day.

da bodo ljudje vsak dan prišli v pisarno.

And so these companies,

In zato podjetja

they build offices.

gradijo pisarniške prostore.

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

Podjetje zgradi ali najame poslovno stavbo,

or they lease some space,

ali pa poslovni prostor

and they fill this space with stuff.

in ga opremi.

They fill it with tables, or desks,

Opremijo ga s pisalnimi mizami, stoli,

chairs, computer equipment,

računalniki,

programsko opremo,

software, Internet access,

dostopom do interneta,

maybe a fridge, maybe a few other things,

morda hladilnikom, morda še s čim,

and they expect their employees, or their volunteers,

in pričakujejo da bodo zaposleni, ali prostovoljci,

vsak dan prišli in opravili odlično delo.

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

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

Zdi se, da je taka zahteva razumna.

However, if you actually talk to people

Toda, ko povprašate ljudi,

in ko se zamislite

and even question yourself, and you ask yourself,

in se vprašate, kje želite delati,

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

da resnično naredite zastavljeno,

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

tedaj spoznate, da se ljudje

ne strinjajo s podjetji.

If you ask people the question:

Kadar vprašate ljudi, kje želijo delati,

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

da bo delo narejeno,

Typically, you get three different kinds of answers.

dobite tri tipične odgovore.

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

Prvi omenja prostor, ali lokacijo ali sobo.

Another one is a moving object,

Drugi omenja transportno sredstvo.

and a third is a time.

In tretji omenja čas dneva.

So here are some examples.

Na primer.

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

Ko sprašujem ljudi, in taka vprašanja postavljam že deset let,

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

jih vprašam: "Kam greste, kadar želite resnično nekaj narediti?"

In slišim odgovore kot veranda, terasa,

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

kuhinja.

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

Slišim odgovore kot prazna soba v hiši,

klet,

the basement,

the coffee shop, the library.

kavarna, knjižnica.

And then you'll hear things like the train,

In potem slišim odgovore kot vlak,

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

letalo, avto -- prevozna sredstva torej.

And then you'll hear people say,

In nato slišim:

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

"Hja, niti ni pomembno kje sem,

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

le da je to zgodaj zjutraj ali pozno zvečer ali med vikendi".

Skoraj nikdar pa ne slišim pisarna.

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

Pa vendar podjetja zapravljajo denar za pisarne

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

in silijo ljudi, da v njih preživljajo delovnik,

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

čeprav ljudje v pisarnah sploh ne delajo.

yet people don't do work in the office.

Čemu smo priča?

What is that about?

(Laughter)

Zakaj je tako?

Why is that? Why is that happening?

Zakaj se to dogaja?

And what you find out is,

Ko pobrskate globlje ugotovite,

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

da ljudje --

tole se zgodi:

this is what happens:

People go to work,

ljudje gredo na delo,

and they're basically trading in their work day

v resnici pa zamenjajo delovnik za

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

niz delovnih trenutkov.

To se zgodi v pisarni.

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

Delovnik ne obstaja več, so samo še delovni trenutki.

Kot da s prihodom v pisarno stopiš v mesoreznico

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

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

in tvoj delovni dan je sesekljan v koščke,

15 minut tukaj, 30 minut tam,

because you have 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there,

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

in se zgodi nekaj novega in te odtegne delu,

in moraš zopet postoriti nekaj drugega, pa imaš 20 minut za delo, in potem kosilo.

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

Potem je potrebno postoriti to in ono,

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

zopet dobiš 15 minut za delo in zopet te nekdo zmoti z vprašanjem.

In predno se zaveš je ura pet, popoldan,

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

and you look back on the day,

pogled nazaj pa ti pokaže,

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

da nisi naredil ničesar.

Vsi smo že doživeli to.

We've all been through this.

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

Možno, da smo to doživeli včeraj,

ali predvčerajšnjim, ali dan predtem.

You look back on your day,

Ozreš se nazaj na dan in ugotoviš, da nisi nič naredil.

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

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

Bil sem v službi.

Lepo za pisalno mizo in za dragim računalnikom.

I used the software they told me to use.

Delal sem s programsko opremo, ki so mi jo dali.

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

Bil sem na sestankih, na katere sem bil vabljen.

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

Imel sem konferenčne klice. Vse to sem delal.

But I didn't actually do anything.

V resnici pa nisem prav ničesar naredil.

I just did tasks.

Samo delal sem.

I didn't actually get meaningful work done."

Vendar pa nisem delal smiselnih opravil.

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

In tako ugotovitie, pravposebej pri kreativnih ljudeh,

designers, programmers, writers, engineers, thinkers --

dizajnerjih, programerjih,

pisateljih, inžinerjih,

mislecih,

that people really need long stretches of uninterrupted time

da ljudje resnično potrebujemo

daljša, neprekinjena obdobja, da nekaj naredimo.

to get something done.

You cannot ask somebody to be creative in 15 minutes

Ne morete zahtevati, da so ljudje ustvarjalni v 15 minutah

and really think about a problem.

in se resnično poglobijo v problem.

You might have a quick idea,

Ideje lahko hitro dobimo, toda da celostno

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

in celovito in skrbno pretehtamo problem

you need long stretches of uninterrupted time.

potrebujemo daljša neprekinjena obdobja.

And even though the work day is typically eight hours,

Čeprav običajen delovni dan traja osem ur,

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

je vprašanje koliko ljudi sploh ima teh osem ur mir za delo?

Jih imate sedem?

How about seven hours?

Six? Five? Four?

Šest? Pet? Štiri?

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

Kdaj ste v pisarni nazadnje imeli tri ure miru za delo?

Two hours? One, maybe?

Dve uri? Eno morda?

Very, very few people actually have

Izjemno malo ljudi ima v pisarni

long stretches of uninterrupted time at an office.

daljša neprekinjena obdobja za delo.

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

In zato ljudje raje delajo doma,

or they might go to the office,

ali pa gredo v pisarno,

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

vendar zgodaj zjutraj

ali pozno zvečer ko ni nikogar,

or late at night when no one's around,

or they stick around after everyone's left,

ali pa ostanejo, ko ni nikogar več, ali pridejo ob vikendih,

or go in on the weekends,

ali pa delajo na letalu,

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

ali pa v avtomobilu ali na vlaku,

because there are no distractions.

ker jih tam nihče ne moti.

Now there are different kinds of distractions,

Obstaja več vrst motenj,

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

tudi izjemno hude,

ki jih bom v kratkem opisal.

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

Celoten pojav kratkih obdobij

v katerih lahko delamo

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

me spominja na drugo dejavnost,

ki ne deluje, če vas motijo.

and that is sleep.

To je spanje.

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

Menim, da sta spanje in delo tesno povezana.

Ne samo tako, da ne morete delati kadar spite

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

in ne morete spati kadar delate.

That's not really what I mean.

Nisem mislil tega.

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

Govorim o dejstvu,

da sta spanje in delo

fazni dejavnosti,

or stage-based, events.

dejavnosti s stopnjami.

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

Spanje ima tako več faz,

ljudje jih poimenujejo različno.

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

Teh faz je pet

in v globoke faze, v pravo spanje, vstopimo

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

preko manj globokih.

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

Toda kar vas zmotijo v neki fazi,

če se nekdo zaleti v posteljo,

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

ali vas zdrami zvok, ali kaj drugega,

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

potem ne morete preprosto nadeljevati s spanjem.

If you're interrupted and woken up,

Prebudili ste se

you have to start again.

in začeti morate znova.

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

In tako zopet začnete od začetka.

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

Posledice tega so -- recimo, da se zbudite

ob osmih zjutraj, ali ob sedmih, ali kadarkoli

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

pač vstajate -- in ko vstanete

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

ugotovite kako ste slabo spali.

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

To sem izkusil -- šel sem spat, se ulegel --

but I didn't really sleep."

pa nisem spal.

People say you go "to" sleep,

Pravimo, da gremo spat

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

pa v resnici ne gremo, pač pa gremo proti spanju.

Traja nekaj časa; človek mora preiti več faz spanja.

You've got to go through phases and stuff,

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

In kadar te prekinejo, ne spiš dobro.

So does anyone here expect someone to sleep well

Kako lahko torej pričakujemo -- si kdo domišlja,

da bo dobro spal, kadar ga motijo celo noč?

if they're interrupted all night?

I don't think anyone would say yes.

Mislim, da ne bo nihče pritrdil temu.

Why do we expect people to work well

Kako lahko torej pričakujemo, da bodo ljudje dobro delali,

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

če pa jih cel dan motimo?

Kako lahko sploh pričakujemo, da bodo ljudje opravili svoj posel,

How can we possibly expect people to do their job

if they go to the office and are interrupted?

če pa jih v pisarni kar naprej motimo?

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

To vse skupaj nima smisla.

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

Kaj so potemtakem motnje, ki se dogajajo

v pisarni drugje pa ne?

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

Motnje so prisotne povsod,

npr. gledamo televizijo,

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

ali sprehod,

ali pa do hladilnika,

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

ali na divan, ali kaj drugega.

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

Če vprašate menedžerje

bodo rekli, da ne želijo, da ljudje delajo od doma

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

because of these distractions.

zaradi teh motenj.

They'll sometimes also say,

Dodali bodo še,

no, včasih bodo rekli:

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

"Če ne vidim človeka, kako vem da dela?"

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

Kar je smešno, toda to so menedžerski izgovori.

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

In sam sem izmed teh menedžerjev.

Vem kako to gre.

We all have to improve on this sort of thing.

Na tem področju se moramo izboljšati.

Toda pogosto bodo omenili motnje.

But oftentimes they'll cite distractions:

"Ne smem dovoliti, da ljudje delajo od doma".

"I can't let someone work at home.

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

"Gledali bodo TV. Počeli bodo druge stvari".

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

Izkaže se, da te motnje niso resnično moteče.

Because those are voluntary distractions.

So namreč prostovoljne.

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

Človek se odloči, kdaj se bo zamotil s televizijo.

when you want to turn something on,

Odločiš se, kdaj boš nekaj vklopil.

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

Odločiš še, kdaj boš šel v kuhinjo ali na sprehod.

At the office,

V pisarni pa je večina motenj in prekinitev,

most of the interruptions and distractions

ki onemogočajo delo,

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

neprostovoljnih.

So let's go through a couple of those.

Oglejmo si nekaj teh motenj.

Now, managers and bosses will often have you think

Menedžerji in šefi

vas bodo prepričevali, da so resnične delovne motnje

that the real distractions at work

are things like Facebook and Twitter

stvari kot sta Facebook ali Twitter,

and YouTube and other websites,

ali YouTube ali druge spletne strani.

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

Dejansko bodo ukrepali drastično tako,

da bodo zaprli dostop do teh spletnih strani.

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

Nekateri delate v podjetjih, kjer ne morete dostopati do teh spletnih strani.

Smo morda na Kitajskem? Kaj se dogaja?

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?

V pisarni ne moreš dostopati do spletne strani,

ker je ta vzrok, da ljudje ne opravijo dela,

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

ker obiskujejo Facebook in Twitter?

because they're on Facebook and Twitter?

To je smešno. To je prevara.

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

Today's Facebook and Twitter and YouTube,

Facebook, Twitter in YouTube

these things are just modern-day smoke breaks.

so samo moderne čik-pavze.

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

Pred desetimi leti se nihče ni vzemirjal

zaradi 15 minutnega cigareta.

so why does anyone care if someone goes to Facebook

Zakaj se torej vznemirjamo zaradi občasnega

or Twitter or YouTube here and there?

obiskovanja Facebooka, Twitterja ali YouTuba?

To niso pravi problemi dela v pisarni.

Those aren't the real problems in the office.

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

Prave probleme imenujem

M&M,

the Managers and the Meetings.

menedžerji in sestanki.

Those are the real problems in the modern office today.

To so pravi problemi dela v pisarni.

In to so razlogi, zakaj v pisarni ne moremo delati,

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

it's because of the M&Ms.

zaradi M&M.

Now what's interesting is,

Zanimivo je, da na mestih

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

kjer so ljudje produktivni,

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

npr. doma, v avtu, na letalu,

ali ponoči, ali zgodaj zjutraj,

you don't find managers and meetings.

ni menedžerjev in sestankov.

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

Še vedno so prisotne motnje, ni pa menedžerjev in sestankov.

To sta torej motnji, ki ju drugje ni,

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

v pisarni pa sta.

but you do find at the office.

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

Bistvena naloga menedžerjev je,

da motijo ljudi.

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

To je njihov smisel, da motijo ljudi.

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

V resnici ne delajo,

zato morajo poskrbeti, da delajo drugi, to pa je motnja.

which is an interruption.

In danes je na svetu veliko menedžerjev.

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

In veliko ljudi.

and a lot of interruptions by these managers.

In zato je na svetu veliko motenj.

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

Menedžerji preverjajo:"Zdravo, kako gre?"

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

"Pokaži mi, kaj počneš," in podobne fraze.

They keep interrupting you at the wrong time,

Tako motijo ljudi, medtem ko ti poskušajo

narediti to za kar so plačani.

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

Menedžerji pa jih motijo.

they tend to interrupt you.

That's kind of bad.

To je slabo.

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

Še slabša je druga menedžerska razvada,

which is call meetings.

to je sestankovanje.

And meetings are just toxic,

Sestanki so strupeni,

terrible, poisonous things

grozni, strupeni trenutki

during the day at work.

v delovnem dnevu.

(Laughter)

Vsi vemo, da to drži.

We all know this to be true,

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

Zaposleni nikdar ne skličejo sestanka.

To preprosto ne deluje.

It doesn't work that way.

The manager calls the meeting

Menedžerji sklicujejo sestanke,

so the employees can all come together,

da se dobijo z zaposlenimi,

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

kar je izredno moteče.

Oznanijo: "Imeli bomo sestanek

to say, "Hey look,

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

desetih ljudi takoj zdaj".

I don't care what you're doing,

"Ne zanima me, kaj počneš,

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

prekini z delom in pridi na sestanek".

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

Kakšna je verjetnost, da vseh deset ljudi ravno končuje z delom?

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

Kaj če razmišljajo o čem važnem?

Kaj če delajo kaj pomembenga?

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

Toda nenadoma jih prekinemo zato,

da počno nekaj drugega.

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

Sestanejo se torej v konferenčni sobi

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

in premlevajo zadeve, ki jih ne zanimajo.

Because meetings aren't work.

Ker sestanki niso delo.

Meetings are places to go to talk about things

Sestanki so srečanja na katerih se pogovarjaš o prihodnjem delu.

you're supposed to be doing later.

Toda sestanki se tudi množijo.

But meetings also procreate.

Začetnemu sestanku sledi drugi,

So one meeting tends to lead to another meeting,

temu pa tretji.

which leads to another meeting.

There's often too many people in the meetings,

Pogosto je na sestankih preveč ljudi,

kar je zelo drago za podjetje.

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

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

Čeprav menimo, da enourni sestanek vzame eno uro,

pa to ni res, razen kadar je na sestanku en sam človek.

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.

Če je tam deset ljudi, potem je to deseturni sestanek, ne enourni.

Deset ur dela je bilo odvzetega podjetju

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

za enourni sestanek.

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

Ki bi ga verjetno morala opraviti dva človeka

by two or three people talking for a few minutes.

v nekaj minutah.

But instead, there's a long scheduled meeting,

Toda namesto tega imamo dolge sestanke,

because meetings are scheduled the way software works,

ker so sestanki načrtovani kot določajo programska orodja.

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

To pomeni v korakih po 15 minut, 30 minut ali eno uro.

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

V Outlooku ne morete sklicati 8-minutnega sestanka.

Ne morete.

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

Lahko naredite 15 minutni, 30, 45 minutni ali enourni sestanek.

And so we tend to fill these times up

To nas nagiba, da zapolnimo celoten čas sestanka,

when things should go really quickly.

čeprav bi se stvari lahko odvile zelo hitro.

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

Tako so sestanki in menedžerji glavni problem v poslovanju,

posebej glede dela v pisarnah.

especially at offices.

These things don't exist outside of the office.

Ti dve motnji ne obstajata izven pisarne.

So I have some suggestions to remedy the situation.

Zato predlagam nekaj zdravil

za trenutno stanje.

What can managers do --

Kaj lahko menedžerji storijo --

enlightened managers, hopefully --

razsvetljeni menedžerji --

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

kar lahko storijo za izboljšanje delovnih pogojev,

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

da postane pisarna prva in ne zadnja izbira,

so that people start to say,

da bi ljudje začeli govoriti

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

"Ko želim kaj narediti, grem v pisarno?"

Because the offices are well-equipped;

Ker pisarne so popolno opremljene,

everything is there for them to do the work.

vse imamo pri roki za delo,

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

pa vseeno ne gremo delat v pisarno. Kako bomo to spremenili?

Z vami bom podelil tri predloge.

I have three suggestions to share with you.

Ostanejo mi še tri minute, ravno prav.

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

Vsi smo že slišali za Sproščeni petek.

We've all heard of the Casual Friday thing.

I don't know if people still do that.

Ne vem, če ljudje to še počno.

But how about "No-talk Thursdays?"

Kaj pa "Ne govori četrtek"?

(Laughter)

Kaj pa --

Pick one Thursday once a month,

izberite en četrtek v mesecu,

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

ga razdelite na pol in določite popoldan -- res vam bom poenostavil.

So just the afternoon, one Thursday.

Torej eno popoldne, en četrtek.

First Thursday of the month, just the afternoon,

Prvi četrtek v mesecu, zgolj popoldan,

nobody in the office can talk to each other.

se v pisarnah ne smemo pogovarjati.

Zgolj tišina, tako.

Just silence, that's it.

And what you'll find

Ugotovili boste,

is that a tremendous amount of work gets done

da naredite ogromno.

when no one talks to each other.

ko se ne pogovarjate.

This is when people actually get stuff done,

Ljudje naredijo stvari,

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

ko jih nihče ne moti, jih ne prekinja.

Giving someone four hours of uninterrupted time

Ko nekomu podarite štiri ure, ki jih porabi samo za delo,

is the best gift you can give anybody at work.

je to največ, kar mu lahko podarite v službi.

To je več kot računalnik.

It's better than a computer,

better than a new monitor, better than new software,

Je bolje kot nov monitor. Je bolje kot nov program,

or whatever people typically use.

ali kaj drugega kar ljudje uporabljamo.

Giving them four hours of quiet time at the office

Štiri ure miru in tišine v pisarni

is going to be incredibly valuable.

ima neznansko vrednost.

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

Če to poskusite, se boste strinjali z menoj.

Morda, upam da boste to lahko večkrat počeli.

So maybe it's every other week,

Mogoče vsak drugi teden,

or every week, once a week,

ali vsak teden, enkrat tedensko,

afternoons no one can talk to each other.

se ob popoldnevih ne sme nihče pogovarjati,

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

Ugotovili boste, da resnično deluje.

Another thing you can try,

Poskusite lahko tudi

is switching from active communication and collaboration,

presedlati iz

aktivne komunikacije in sodelovanja,

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

npr. osebnih stikov,

trpeljanja po ramenih, pozdravljanja, sestankovanja,

saying hi to them, having meetings,

and replace that with more passive models of communication,

na bolj pasivne modele komunikacije npr.

elektronsko pošto ali hipno sporočanje

using things like email and instant messaging,

or collaboration products, things like that.

ali platforme skupinskega dela.

Now some people might say email is really distracting,

Nekateri ljudje menijo, da je elektronska pošta moteča

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

in da je hipno sporočanje resnično moteče,

ter da so tudi ostale stvari resnično moteče,

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

vendar so moteče kadar vi želite.

Elektronsko pošto lahko izključite, ne morete pa izključiti šefa.

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

You can quit I.M.;

Lahko izključite hipno sporočanje,

you can't hide your manager.

ne pa svojega menedžerja.

You can put these things away,

Vse te stvari lahko odstranite

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

in se tako odločite kdaj vas lahko motijo,

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

kdaj ste na voljo, kdaj ste pripravljeni delati.

Ker delo se, tako kot spanje, odvija v fazah.

Because work, like sleep, happens in phases.

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

Tako se recimo lotiš nekega dela,

and then you'll come down from that work,

ga dokončaš in potem pregledaš

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

elektronsko pošto, ali preveriš hipno sporočanje.

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

Konec koncev je izjemno malo stvari,

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

ki so nujne, na katere moramo takoj odgovoriti.

So if you're a manager,

Če ste torej menedžer,

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

spodbujajte ljudi, da bi več uporabljali elektronsko pošto

and other things that someone can put away

in ostale načine, ki drugim omogočajo

and then get back to you on their own schedule.

komunikacijo v skladu z njihovim urnikom.

And the last suggestion I have is that,

Moje zadnje priporočilo je,

da naslednji sestanek,

if you do have a meeting coming up,

if you have the power, just cancel it.

če je to v vaši moči,

odpoveste. Enostavno ga odpoveste.

Just cancel that next meeting.

(Laughter)

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

Danes je petek -- torej v ponedeljek, ko je navadno dan za sestanke.

Enostavno ga odpovejte.

Just don't have it.

I don't mean move it;

Ne mislim premaknite,

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

pač pa ga izbrišite iz spomina.

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

Ugotovili boste, da je čisto v redu.

All these discussions and decisions you thought you had to make

Vse razprave in odločitve, za katere menite, da so nujne

ob 9:00 v ponedeljek zjutraj --

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

just forget about them, and things will be fine.

pozabite na njih in vse bo v redu.

Ljudje bodo imeli bolj sproščeno jutro in bodo razmišljali.

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

Ugotovili boste, da opravila, ki naj bi bila nujna,

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

sploh niso taka.

you don't actually have to do.

To so torej trije nasveti, ki sem vam jih želel dati

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

za razmislek.

Upam, da bo kakšna ideja

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

dovolj provokativna

for managers and bosses and business owners

za menedžerje in šefe in lastnike

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

in organizatorje in ljudi, ki vodijo druge ljudi,

to think about laying off a little bit,

da bodo malo popustili

and giving people more time to get work done.

in dali ljudem več časa za delo.

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

Menim, da se to na koncu splača.

So, thanks for listening.

Hvala.

(Applause)

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