saturday and the mobile workforce game breaker agenda

Waking up during the week is such a hardship for me unlike most of the people that I know who are able to “jump” out of bed at six o’clock, sharp. I just can’t, I’m just not a morning person. Social decency is 11am in my existence, anytime before that and I’m just a bumbling, grumbling personae.

I have four, sequenced, alarm wake-up alerts which my PDA allows me to do and they go off at the oddest of times, 06h17; 06h48; 07h22 and 07h54. I generally manage to roll over, squint and touch quite a small tab on the screen which sequentially deactivates the noise until just before eight when I finally succumb and get up.

Weekends are different, I don’t have any alarms set and yet I am up around 7-ish without a problem, and even, like this morning with an agenda. No big-bad-oil-and-gas to attend to, although I do have all the mobile tools just to check if there is anything critical in the inbox, what next week’s calendar looks like and people can get hold of me on my mobile (oh yes they do get their pound(s) of flesh).

Yet on Saturday like many others before, dealing with work is not a chore, I can quite happily process stuff, think about how I would like to deal with people and situations because I am in my cosy little environment – working from home but without any obligation. It’s ironic.

Mobile work, or the mobile sales force, “game changer agenda” is a radical progression for lots of people in our office, they still believe in time and not output. They like for you to be “around,” to work traditional hours, have lunch between 12 and 2 and to passively clear your inbox with minimal complaint. But I’ve never been able to do that, for a start I am always late, my body clock is not in sync with the traditional business hours, I deal in output and unfortunately I am always thinking. The continuous improvement is happening all the time, simply because I dislike working hard, my focus is on output, and the quality of that output. So mobile work suites me better, it gives me opportunities to deal with my workload, in environments and at times when I can deliver a better output preferably in a shorter period of time.

This never feels like a hardship because I can do lots of other things during the 9-to-5 which is non work related.

So Saturday, I need to visit the bank manager, I need to buy beer, I need to gym and it would be nice to memorise a few more French verbs. I think it’ll be, breakfast, beer, football and French verbs - the bank manager well that can happen in the 9-to-5, I plan to do some work from home this weekend which should open up that block of time to forward my personal agenda.