> >> > 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!
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.
Gruss
H.
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Received on Wed Apr 21 1999 - 14:07:44 BST