Mayor Bloomberg has gone on an efficiency rampage and installed "count-up" clocks that staffers must turn on at the start of meetings to show how much time has passed. "We're not here to sit around and meet with each other—we're here to get things done," the mayor's press secretary tells The Wall Street Journal. Four of the clocks are already in place at City Hall, and eight more are on the way. It's unclear how staffers will cope with this constant reminder of the inexorable onward march of time, but they should probably be glad Bloomberg hasn't taken their chairs away (yet). As Bloomberg wrote in his autobiography, "It's amazing how much quicker and more focused stand-up conferences are."