20 Mar
1999
20 Mar
'99
11:15 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.
This and similar productivity measurement measures were not uncommon.
20 Mar
20 Mar
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?
20 Apr
20 Apr
11:17 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) ?
Gruss
H.
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21 Apr
21 Apr
3:07 a.m.
At 11:18 PM 4/20/99 +1, you wrote:
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!
Joe
> 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) ?
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! 
5:29 a.m.
Within German workin laws this would be illigal - only
when the
gathered data has a direct connection to the job a gathering is
legal and the usage is allowed - so, even on secretary jobs this
practice is illegal, since keystrokes/second are not a valid
measurement for the job. God bless our unions.
I'm not sure I'd trade our "idiots in management" for your unions, but
it
would be interesting.
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