Binary Work

     "If you do a job where someone tells you exactly what to do he will find someone cheaper to do it." Seth Godin. This is a good segue to something I've been thinking about lately. I see in the world around us a push from workers to want their jobs to be binary. People push to have clear direction so that everything that comes at them is a one or a zero. Bosses increasingly try to add measurable items to employee performance evaluations to eliminate the grey areas and to be able to say here is why. The problem with making your work binary is you take the skill out of it and thus remove the value. When you remove the value why would the company or boss pay you a lot of money to do it? Now that job is a low skilled and ultimately low paying job. Next time we complain about the loss of good paying jobs in our economy perhaps we should consider the impact of us trying to remove the skill and personal responsibility from our jobs.