21 Apr
1999
21 Apr
'99
7:07 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?
Never forgett
thet there hav been jobs where just keying in
data is the goal (or are they still around) ?
Yes, but counting keystrokes is still a common metric even for
professional work. Martin Marietta still uses it to "evaluate" their
engineers. Been there, put up with that shit and glad I'm out of it!