Keyword ‘Org Comm’

Business Practice

Job Descriptions Can Be Stupid

by Andrew Swenson

I contend that people think, act, and express their passions at work in ways that don’t always fit into rigidly-defined department or job description boundaries:

  • Someone on the accounting staff may be a stud PHP programmer.
  • Someone on the web team may also be a phenomenal print designer.
  • Someone in marketing may have built the next killer app in his/her spare time.

But we’re often bound by our job descriptions, forced into completing only the tasksĀ  we’re assigned in that proverbial big binder we all got on our first day. This, I think, is a shame.