On value

︎by Pete Lacey, Head of Design



You operate in a world of monotony. Boxes get checked, reports get filed. You show up, you clock in. Email read, email sent. Meeting scheduled, meeting held. You give the best years of your life in exchange for money to survive. This money passes back and forth, to you and from you, until you die.

Your time has value.

The chances are your workday would already be full without all this other stuff. So what happens? Work leaks into your evening, your morning, your weekend, your vacation. It leaks into your own wellbeing, your relationships. It burdens you. This time could be spent doing something else.

Your time has value.

Now understand me; there is nothing wrong with working hard, being good at your job and honing your craft. For one thing, it feels good, besides the obvious business benefits that come with it. But there is a layer of constant tedious busywork distracting you from the things that matter.

For the most part, this busywork is not designed to be inherently evil. It’s legacy decisions on top of legacy decisions. Tradition and institution. Things we’ll fix later. Old software. Old thinking. Trade-offs and short- cuts. They’re dragged with you, unquestioned, until one day you reflect on just how ridiculous they are. How much time in your life they occupy.

Your time has value.

We don’t claim to solve it all — we can’t. It’s an ongoing joint effort. Maybe it’ll never be solved. But we believe that the place you work should value your time. If they value your time, they’ll do what they can to give you more that belongs only to you. We’re not the future of email. We’re not fixing meeting culture. We’re not solving remote collaboration. Buying things for work is a means to an end, but by making it practically invisible, we’re buying you a little more time that you can spend on things that matter.

Your time has value.

Does your workplace value yours?