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> why do you think the company should force their employees to use the product instead of using the opportunity to figure out how to improve the product so that

> why do you think the company should force their employees to use the product instead of using the opportunity to figure out how to improve the product so that the employees want to use it If nobody uses it, how are you supposed to figure out how to improve it so they will? > there's quite a lot of people who don't have any concern when it's a corporation exerting the same sort of pressure on people It's an employer telling employees to do something while they're at work, on company time and company premises! How is that relatable to federal regulation of private industry?

greenyoda 8y ago
> If nobody uses it, how are you supposed to figure out how to improve it so they will? - They could survey their actual customers. (Businesses I deal with ask me for feedback all the time.) - They could conduct focus groups, where they pay customers to come in and give feedback directly to the product team. - They could do A/B testing. I think customers would be more likely to provide negative feedback about a product than employees. Employees might be wary of offending the decisions of powerful people in the company. And in any case, some employees will voluntarily use the company's product. Just don't force people to use it if they don't want to. > It's an employer telling employees to do something while they're at work, on company time and company premises! - It involves the employee consenting to hook up their personal financial account to the company-owned payment account, which is a rather personal and intrusive thing for an employer to ask. - It exposes all the employee's purchases to their employer, which is a privacy issue. What if I don't want my employer to know that I drink six cans of diet Coke every day? Just because the employee is on the clock doesn't mean the company owns them. Would you think it's OK for the employer to force the employee to eat certain foods or read non-work-related political literature just because they're on the clock?

greenyoda 8y ago

> If nobody uses it, how are you supposed to figure out how to improve it so they will? - They could survey their actual customers. (Businesses I deal with ask me for feedback all the time.) - They could conduct focus groups, where they pay customers to come in and give feedback directly to the product team. - They could do A/B testing. I think customers would be more likely to provide negative feedback about a product than employees. Employees might be wary of offending the decisions of powerful people in the company. And in any case, some employees will voluntarily use the company's product. Just don't force people to use it if they don't want to. > It's an employer telling employees to do something while they're at work, on company time and company premises! - It involves the employee consenting to hook up their personal financial account to the company-owned payment account, which is a rather personal and intrusive thing for an employer to ask. - It exposes all the employee's purchases to their employer, which is a privacy issue. What if I don't want my employer to know that I drink six cans of diet Coke every day? Just because the employee is on the clock doesn't mean the company owns them. Would you think it's OK for the employer to force the employee to eat certain foods or read non-work-related political literature just because they're on the clock?