Canon Find Solution To Upping Productivity

Canon has decided that there is more ways to skin a cat when it comes to being more productive in the work place

So the boss has asked you to stay behind for an extra half hour to help with an urgent project, but you have a really hot date. Or (s)he’s asked you to take a five percent pay cut for the next few months to see the company through the economic downturn. Maybe you’ve been told that the assistant you were promised to help through the mountain of paperwork won’t be forthcoming in the near future.

You think you’ve got it hard, spare a thought for the poor folk at Canon in Japan, whose boss seems to be stuck in a Dickensian time warp. A little nugget of a story out of Gizmodo US tells us that Canon Electronic’s president, Hisashi Sakamaki, believes that chairs and lackadaisical walking are the causes of lower productivity.

To arrest this purported lack of work ethic Mr Sakamaki has found the solution – nobody is allowed chairs in their workplace, and if workers don’t walk at least five metres every 3.6 seconds, then an alarm flashes! Not only that, there is a flashing sign on the ground that says “Let’s rush: If we don’t, the company and world will perish!”