Wednesday, 12 September 2007

How to choose the chores?

Every office has tasks that no-one wants to do: putting paper in the printers, changing the water cooler, loading the dishwasher – even clearing your desk. Yet we all know that these things have to be done. So how do you decide?

At Aston Taylor, we have a ‘competition’ for who gets to make the tea at three (called, originally enough ‘Tea at 3’) – the winner is the person with the lowest phone time for the previous day.

Others go to more extreme lengths. Like the client of ours who decided to have a press-up competition, including all staff from the MD down, to choose who made the coffee. I suppose it comes down to who wants to avoid the chore the most…

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