20 Mar
1999
20 Mar
'99
11:22 a.m.
Believe it or not, the most common use of keeping
keystrokes was for
employee evaluation. I remember weekly postings of graphs of
"keystrokes/hour" in data entry and word processing departments, with a
weekly "prize" [nominal value] for the "best" data entry operator of
the
week.
Does it matter *which* keystrokes they are? In particular, does backspace
count?
If a business activity doesn't have any better metric than keystrokes,
is it even worth doing?