Three tips from Bill Gates to improve office performance

Bill Gates, one of the richest men in the world, has made his fortune thanks to his businesses like Microsoft, and also because of his vision and manner of to work, becoming a benchmark for entrepreneurs who seek to succeed.

The tycoon shared with Vanity Fair magazine some aspects that should never be missing in a work office. He assured that with these three points there will be improvements in productivity.

The founder of Microsoft is a renowned lover of books and sometimes recommends titles through his social networks, as part of the knowledge that led him to be one of the most influential men in the world has emerged from those pages.

In his office there are always books, including 'The Catcher in the Rye' or 'The Hidden Hunter', depending on the publisher that translated, by the writer J.D. Salinger.

“Like most people, I suspect, I read it for the first time when I was in school. It currently remains one of my favorites, as well as I have many memories of J.D. Salinger at home,” Gates said.

The employer assured that active breaks are indispensable in any type of work. Regardless of whether it is a passing employee or the CEO of a company, Bill Gates points out that a moment of disconnection from tasks should be seized with an activity that exercises strategic thinking such as the Bridge card game.

“You have to try to communicate with your partner and use nothing but your offers. It's fascinating [the Bridge game],” he said.

The cherry on the cake is an office with several screens connected to the PC. In part this is because Bill Gates runs a technology company, yet he recommends having a broad view of the work.

On your personal desk there are no traces of paper, but there are three monitors interlaced to your CPU, creating a completely technological environment.

“Once you try that huge viewing area, there's no going back. Many people think that mixed reality is only for games or entertainment, but the uses go much further,” he told the magazine.

In the past, Bill Gates predicted the arrival of streaming services such as Netflix, the concept of the smartphone was closely related to his vision of “pocket PCs” and even in the 90s he anticipated the arrival of social networks such as Facebook. At the end of last year, the tycoon shared his visions of what would happen this year.

In a publication on his website GesteSnotes, his personal page, he made predictions about the near future are now taken into account as valuable analyses regarding the future of processes that are already underway.

One of them is about the pandemic, he said that the virus will gradually begin to subside. However, Gates points out that the pandemic is taking longer than expected due to the delta variant.

“Due to the Delta variant and vaccine acceptance issues, we are not as close to the end of the pandemic as I expected. I didn't foresee that such a highly transmissible variant would appear, and I underestimated how difficult it would be to convince people to get vaccinated and continue to wear masks. However, I am hopeful that the end will be in sight. It may be foolish to make another prediction, but I think that the acute phase of the pandemic will come to an end sometime in 2022 ″, he wrote.

“In the next two or three years, I predict that most virtual meetings will move from 2D camera image grids - which I call the Hollywood Squares model, although I know that probably takes me back to the metaverse - to a 3D space with digital avatars. Both Facebook and Microsoft recently unveiled their visions on the matter, which gave most people their first vision of what it will be like. The idea is that, over time, you use your avatar to meet people in a virtual space that reproduces the feeling of being in a real room with them,” he concluded.

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