Template:M intro systems work-to-rule
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Work-to-rule
wɜːk-tuː-ruː also: go-slow (n.)
To do no more than scrupulously follow formal working rules, policies and procedures exactly, as a form of industrial action, especially in industries where outright strikes are illegal. To work-to-rule is to refrain from exercising any judgment, effort, energy, time or discretion beyond those officially required.
Which, in our neo-Taylorist times, seems curious: it is to insist upon doing what operationalising middle managers ask us to do: surely one side of this argument is missing the point. As ever readers, the JC finds it to be the management layer.