Counting keystrokes

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Wed Apr 21 10:07:23 1999

At 11:18 PM 4/20/99 +1, you wrote:
>> > 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!

   Joe
Received on Wed Apr 21 1999 - 10:07:23 BST