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Simone Vellei

👨 Senior Backend Developer at Cybus | ☁️ Cloud Adept | 🐧Linux/IoT Expert | 🏝️ Full-remote Addicted

Strategie per dosare la concentrazione

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Working in a focused manner is a fundamental value for every knowledge worker. In the previous article, I presented how a work environment can be designed so that everyone can enter a state of deep human development, maximizing their personal abilities.

The ideal work environment

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In the previous article I wrote about how concentration and focus are valuable elements for the work of knowledge workers. Distractions, however, constantly try to capture our attention and steal time from our essential tasks. Many of these interruptions arise precisely within the workplace itself. In this article, I present an alternative design of the work environment aimed at achieving maximum dedication.

Concentration and productivity of a knowledge worker

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Perhaps it has happened to you too that you needed concentration to tackle a particular task and were continuously distracted by emails, phone calls, or meetings.

In a world where connectivity is essential for the natural flow of working life, it is often difficult to understand or, worse, to measure the productivity of knowledge workers, that is, those workers who use knowledge to operate on immaterial processes.

The illusion of Gantt

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If someone asked you “How long does it take to get to Amsterdam from Rome traveling 🚶 on foot?” would you be able to provide an accurate estimate? You could probably give a rough evaluation, but in reality, even after a few days of walking, you wouldn’t be able to give precise details.

2020, The decade of remote work

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2019 has just ended, and we are all filled with the hope that the euphoria of the “Roaring Twenties” will repeat itself in this century as well. There is particular attention in the economic, technological, and scientific fields, but what will happen in the world of work is the subject of numerous discussions and even predictions. Many people are betting that 2020 will be the year that kickstarts the development of remote work, also known as “smartworking”. After reading several articles and discussions on the topic, I decided to write this short summary post. It is not meant to be an explanation of what smartworking is (for that I refer you to the dedicated Wikipedia page), but it does require a few premises: