Counting keystrokes

From: Hans Franke <Hans.Franke_at_mch20.sbs.de>
Date: Tue Apr 20 18:17:50 1999

> > 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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