This excerpt is from an article of Silicon India.
Rosin Ingle from Irishtimes.com says - If we learn how to break the worthless rules at work, we will get more stuff done in less time, which makes us happier and more productive.
'Hacking' work, which is the act of getting what we need to do our best by exploiting loopholes and creating workarounds.
'Hacking' work is taking the usual ways of doing things and bypassing them to produce improved results, for the company as well as for the employee.
According to a new book, Hacking Work: Breaking Stupid Rules for Smart Results, "hacking job is all part of a growing work - related DIY (Do it yourself) movement.
The authors, Josh Klein and Bill Jensen are encouraging employees to look around the workplace, identify a better way of doing things and implement change, tossing long-standing company edicts and silly office procedure out of the window along the way.
Listening to employees is a strategy that has been employed by some of the world's top companies such as Google, whose "20 percent rule" allows engineers to spend one day a week on pet projects that are not necessarily in their job description. This was how Gmail came about.
The enemies of the work hacker are worthless rules, a lack of common sense and the because-I- say-so mentality. "Start with the rules or processes which are the biggest drain on your productivity - work from there," explains Klein.
"A bad boss will take a good idea from an employer and tell them no, because they didn't come up with it. In that case, it is recommended to hack the system. Eventually the boss is going to be replaced. It's a question of whether they take the company and your job down with it," adds Klein.
Do our system at workplace needs to be hacked ?
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