Comments on: Applicability of the four-hour work week http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/2007/12/18/applicability-of-the-four-hour-work-week/ Living the optimized work week Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:24:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: R.J. http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/2007/12/18/applicability-of-the-four-hour-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-2105 R.J. Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:08:58 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/?p=14#comment-2105 I really enjoy reading this blog. I'm in the middle of reading T4HWW and ran into this problem also. I'm in the IT industry and my brain thinks in software, web applications, and websites. All of these examples require time and money to produce (i.e. like a product/deliverable) and setup on a particular system (i.e. a service). This dichotomy, in the IT world, has created its own niche, the SAAS model. SAAS stands for Software As A Service. A client requests to use a piece of custom software (product) and the SAAS company must configure it to operate in their environment (service). However, I don't know how much this can be reproduced outside of the "technology" realm. Just wanted to share what I was working through. Keep it up! I really enjoy reading this blog. I’m in the middle of reading T4HWW and ran into this problem also. I’m in the IT industry and my brain thinks in software, web applications, and websites.
All of these examples require time and money to produce (i.e. like a product/deliverable) and setup on a particular system (i.e. a service). This dichotomy, in the IT world, has created its own niche, the SAAS model. SAAS stands for Software As A Service. A client requests to use a piece of custom software (product) and the SAAS company must configure it to operate in their environment (service).
However, I don’t know how much this can be reproduced outside of the “technology” realm.
Just wanted to share what I was working through. Keep it up!

]]> By: id_bob http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/2007/12/18/applicability-of-the-four-hour-work-week/comment-page-1/#comment-32 id_bob Wed, 13 Feb 2008 04:32:00 +0000 http://www.fourhourworkweekdiary.com/?p=14#comment-32 Rex, Awesome post man. You obviously did some deep thinking on this and have presented it in a way normal people (like me!) can understand. I am an example of your post. You can read me about it here: http://fourhoursupport.blogspot.com You'll see in one of my posts that I'm actually a support engineer but I have some freedoms where I'm not constantly on the phone. I do have some room to move about. But you're exactly right with everything you said. I agree that someone in the full-time service industry needs to consider whether or not they really want the 4HWW, and if so, make the drastic changes necessary. Be that talking to the boss and making changes or having the courage to go elsewhere. Rex,

Awesome post man. You obviously did some deep thinking on this and have presented it in a way normal people (like me!) can understand.

I am an example of your post. You can read me about it here: http://fourhoursupport.blogspot.com

You’ll see in one of my posts that I’m actually a support engineer but I have some freedoms where I’m not constantly on the phone. I do have some room to move about.

But you’re exactly right with everything you said. I agree that someone in the full-time service industry needs to consider whether or not they really want the 4HWW, and if so, make the drastic changes necessary. Be that talking to the boss and making changes or having the courage to go elsewhere.

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