Concurrents – Environmental Psychology: Working at our Best
Lately, I’m hearing more people say “I could work here (or there)” – and the working they’re referring to is not necessarily their best work, it’s just getting stuff done. It seems that we’ve gotten to a point where spending time to get tasks accomplished is the objective. It’s like we can’t remember, anymore, work situations in which we’ve excelled, where we really did, in human resource-type terms, work to our full potential, either alone or in teams. It’s as if we’ve spent so much time working in our home offices (that’re “pretty much OK”) and at our kitchen table (where as long as the kids are somehow at school we can’t hear anyone else talking, at least) we’ve forgotten how good it can feel to work in a place that actually works for us, one that moves our satisfaction and performance meters from some sort of neutral readings to …
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