The main selling point is we respect your privacy. We don't want you to be tied down to the service. It feels like a lot of self-hosted solutions are being left in the dust to these modern web-apps at the expense of getting their customer data being sold. We never want that to be the case with Taskfort. I really hope there will be more self-hosted services that can keep up with modern browser technology, I will do my part in trying to iterate as fast as I can.
Totally agree - I'd like to add one huge benefit more: you create great longterm value for your future customers. Sometimes people encounter blogposts which are couple of years old and contact you - it's an awesome felling to help people in the long run. If you keep on blogging readers will follow!
Usually you need a team focused on just one job to get done - otherwise there's no 100% commitment to your project. You don't want your employees to switch between priorities.
"First, telling someone what they should and shouldn’t do in their free time is a tremendous insult to them and their personal judgment. It’s also incredibly short-sighted."
Read that. Twice. Now, add these words of pearly wisdom to the end: "It's also none of your fucking business."
It's their time, not yours. If your employees aren't giving you 100% at work, you've every right to complain. But it's absolutely none of your business what they do outside of work.
this. one million times. What I do off the clock is of no import to my employer unless it is materially impacting my work on the clock.
If you can't trust your employees then you need to review your hiring practices, and your leadership ability. That's your failure, not theirs. Own it, and deal with it.
That's not what I've meant - I don't allow working after hours in my companies. But I prefer a team, which at work focus just on my project. Side projects interfere with each other and that can be deadly to productivity at work. I wouldn't ever try to tell anybody what to do with their free time, relax man :)
Every A Player I've ever worked with has brought full attention, quality and focus regardless of other priorities in their life (barring major, extenuating circumstances like a death). What they do in their non-work time has little impact on their work productivity unless it starts causing too much sleep deprivation.
Most people I've met can handle thinking about more than one thing in a given day or week and to be a productive human you have to. Whether it's reading a bed time story to your child, remembering what groceries to buy on the way home or checking the code a friend committed to your side project, you have to think about other things besides work every day to be a normal, functional human.
Also, there's the small matter of renumeration for that other ~128hrs per week.
I'm perfectly happy to be 100% committed to my employers interests/projects for the ~40hrs a week that all the salary negotiations were assuming. I'm even perfectly happy to adjust those assumptions when it benefits the company - I'll work overtime when needed or do a few 60hr weeks at "crunch time" with time off in lieu.
But if work wants to start dictating what I do or don't do in those _other_ 128 hours, we first need to discuss what a reasonable rate to pay for that is. (And, indeed, whether I'm even interested in a job that wants control of more than 40-ish hours a week of my time.)
