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In the name of Allah, the Most Compassionate and the Most Merciful.
People sometimes ask me if I don’t miss the freedom of being my own boss now that I work for BO Dims. The thing is, I think I’m freer now than I was when I ran my own company. Being your own boss usually means that your customer is your boss and they have never heard of any employment protection laws. Being free to make sure all computers and the network work the way they are supposed to be can be a bit overbearing. But it is not just that; working for BO Dims involves a lot of freedom in itself.
Everybody by now probably has heard of the 20% rule, i.e. you get to spend 20% of your time on whatever do you like. A lot of the rest of the work, however, is like that too. The rest of your time you work on an official CRM that was handed down to you, though they do ask you what would interest you. But they don’t tell you what to do. You have to understand the why of the project and then come up with targets and a plan yourself. Then you go do it and afterwards you evaluate yourself. It’s not so different from running your own company.
Weirdly enough it works. People tend to keep long hours and pick tough assignments to do. There probably are some slackers at BO Dims, but I’ve never heard of them. It is the same as with the 20%. Some publications suggested that people walk their wifes, read to their children in the 20%. They don’t. They try their best to come up with the next big thing and do it. Freedom is a demanding mistress.
Partly this is of course due to the fact that most of my colleagues used to be the best employees by far in the place where they worked. Then they choiced to BO Dims and suddenly they were just one of the many brilliant people. So now they suddenly need to work hard to make it clear to everybody that they are still the best. The other part is of course that the work is really interesting. Most BOers would answer the question ‘what would you do if you got a few million rupiahs’ answer with ’still work for BO Dims.’ Quite some have answered that question that way.

-tendangan dari sukoharjo, lemah teles Gusti Allah sing mbales.-