The best products usually come from the most effective employees, so employee effectiveness is the most fundamental of the fundamentals. The goal of the hypothetical company is to get the best work out of the employees and make sure they leave work by five o clock. If you let his part of the concept slip, the rest of it falls apart. The goal of OA5 is to guarantee that the employee who leaves at 5 PM has done a full share of work and everybody realizes it. For that to happen an OA5 company has to do things differently than an ordinary company.
Companies use a lot of energy trying to increase the employee satisfaction.
That s nice of them, but let s face it-work sucks. The reason we have to pay people to work is that work is inherently unpleasant compared to the alternatives. At OA5 we recognize that the best way to make employees satisfied about their work is to help them get away from it as much as possible. An OA5 company isn t willing to settle for less productivity from the employees, just less time. There s a limit to how much happiness you can get while you re at work.