Techies decrease productivity, survey says.

GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
edited September 2005 in Science & Tech
Employees report that they spend up to an hour per week deciphering tech jargon in their job.
Mr Fletcher, managing director of Computer People, said: "We're finding that many clients are increasingly requiring professionals who have concise communication expertise as they recognise this improves company productivity in the long run."
Source: BBC

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  • drasnordrasnor Starship Operator Hawthorne, CA Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    That's nothing; I've spent 4 hours a week deciphering business jargon. Anyone know what a synergistic paradigm is off the top of their head?

    -drasnor :fold:
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    Are you sure the author didn't mean "Techese" instead of "techies"?
  • shwaipshwaip bluffin' with my muffin Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    primesuspect wrote:
    Are you sure the author didn't mean "Techese" instead of "techies"?

    You're just throwing more jargon out there to confuse them :p.
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited September 2005
    correct jargon though
  • profdlpprofdlp The Holy City Of Westlake, Ohio
    edited September 2005
    Mr Fletcher, managing director of Computer People, said: "We're finding that many clients are increasingly requiring professionals who have concise communication expertise as they recognise this improves company productivity in the long run."
    (Emphasis added)

    This has been true since the dawn of time. Communicate well and you'll be more efficient. What's the big surprise? ;)
  • GHoosdumGHoosdum Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    Techies is the word I used for the headline; we're the ones that propagate the tech jargon, so by inference it's us that decrease the productivity of the stupid-heads who don't understand 'techese'.
  • FormFactorFormFactor At the core of forgotten
    edited September 2005
    drasnor wrote:
    That's nothing; I've spent 4 hours a week deciphering business jargon. Anyone know what a synergistic paradigm is off the top of their head?

    -drasnor :fold:


    ;D Good one dras! Its true I spend most of my day wondering wtf a user is trying to do and why.

    Business people, and tech people will never see eye to eye.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    Yeah, and the dumbasses who walk into Best Buy with hand-scribbled notes, scrawled like chicken-scratch on a scrap piece of paper, about errors that don't (In the slightest) match the errors I receive when I turn the computer on for the check-in process don't ruin my productivity.
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    From a business perspective, this is getting more common. Alot of managers who interface with IT don't have the foggiest about a technical process at all. If you can't break it down into simple terms (high level as they seem to like it being called :rolleyes: ) then it's going to waste time.

    They don't want to know the full shebang as to why something is happening, just an overview with a fix timestamp & root cause rather than listening to some overworked, underpaid IT engineer trying to explain the finer points of why the SAN disks have dropped off the ESS and thus the SQL cluster has died with it. Such is life.
  • airbornflghtairbornflght Houston, TX Icrontian
    edited September 2005
    heh heh heh...sounds like me telling my teachers what the problem is..Their faces usualy look like i just told them the problem in french...
  • QeldromaQeldroma Arid ZoneAh Member
    edited September 2005
    airbornflght wrote:
    heh heh heh...sounds like me telling my teachers what the problem is..Their faces usualy look like i just told them the problem in french...

    For many of these handling my calls now, I think French is the more familiar language.
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