How do different types of workers manage their schedules?

Question

The following questions will be two key aspects of this project: What types of work scheduling strategies do people apply at work? In what ways do these strategies influence productivity?

Answer 1

There are two main types of schedule management which are the manager's schedule and the maker's schedule. In the managers’ schedules, managers break their time into several moments during the day and do not consider vacuums as a void but a chance to engage. On the contrary, makers need massive blocks of rest, which are days without meetings or other interactions, to get deep work like programming, writing, or design performed. In the opinion of makers, emptiness of the calendar means that valuable, but not urgent, tasks can be completed.

Comments

Wow just thank you!!
My mistake was to block small chunks in my calendar and that didn’t work for me because i can’t find mu flow. Make sense now

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Know what sucks? I shifted from maker to manager in terms of scheduling like a week before seeing this. Would have loved this last friggin’ year.

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I found it really valuable to finally understand the difference between maker and manager time.

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I have 5 manager days and my 2 maker days aren't empty. I guess I'll have to make some adjustments. This explanation was really helpful.