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How I Hired Someone On Craigslist And Quadrupled My Productivity
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#62Henry Moore used to live over his studio. Whenever the noise of his chisel stopped, his wife would call down and ask why he had stopped working.
Economically speaking, I'm fairly certain finding a wife is more expensive than a $8/hr freelancer though.
That’s right, you are not going to get any one cheaper to change your adult diapers. HA!
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
It still irks me that people can tout off success as though it's guaranteed for small experiments such as this without even considering elements such as the Hawthorne effect - 'changed behaviour during the course of a study may be related to the special social situation and social treatment they received'
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Thank you!
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting, is this legal? At first I thought it wouldn't be, but then I realized that an investor relationship might not be one of the relationships protected by workplace sexual harassment laws.
Anti-discrimination laws do not apply to investors. In fact, in California, they don't even apply to independent contractors.
Interesting. I'm curious about the legality of a company putting all or most prospective employees through a 'trial run' as an independent contractor before hiring them. Ignoring feasibility of attracting talent in such a system, are there laws in place to prevent such practices being used to circumvent anti discrimination laws?
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#66This is essentially pair-programming, and seems to be the reason he got more done -- a great idea to improve productivity.
That would definitely be extreme programming. And when your tests fail, someone from QA can slap you, too.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting, is this legal? At first I thought it wouldn't be, but then I realized that an investor relationship might not be one of the relationships protected by workplace sexual harassment laws.
Anti-discrimination laws do not apply to investors. In fact, in California, they don't even apply to independent contractors.
@fourk I imagine that if a "trial run" candidate who outperformed his/her peers was denied employment, he or she would have grounds to sue for discrimination.
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#68Thanks for recommendation for RescueTime - just installed, lets see what happens.
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#69As a productivity system, this is idiotic. As a blog post that serves as link-bait, it is GENIUS. ...which is to say, I think it excelled at the REAL goal. ;-)
A productivity system that works can not be idiotic.
It needs to work for more than one person for more than one month before its even worth a conversation.
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#70As a productivity system, this is idiotic. As a blog post that serves as link-bait, it is GENIUS. ...which is to say, I think it excelled at the REAL goal. ;-)
I don't think he's saying we should all hire some slappers. Rather, if we incorporate the right kind of social component to our workflow, we can improve productivity a lot. The slapping is an attention-getter for sure, but I think it's a creative way to make a point.
Yea, for 2 hours :/
He should write a post after 6 months of doing this.