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• forrestthewoods 6y ago
  Open office plans benefit the employer. It saves them money. Using bad data to make bad decisions about employee careers does not benefit the employer. Most of this information is already available. I don’t anticipate this actually being a problem. I could be wrong! But so far in my 14 year career I’ve not been held back by bad decisions based on bugs closed, lines of code written, or diffs landed. I do not anticipate a new set of even less relevant data changing this.
  • hnracer 6y ago
    Agree with your first paragraph. Regarding whether it'll be used in a deleterious way I guess that'll depend on the boss. I could see it making bad bosses even worse but leaving good bosses unaffected.
    • forrestthewoods 6y ago
      > I could see it making bad bosses even worse but leaving good bosses unaffected. That seems extremely reasonable to me. Bad/Good bosses. And companies with bad/less bad review and promotion systems.
  • tirpen 6y ago
    > Using bad data to make bad decisions about employee careers does not benefit the employer. It's another useless number that they can pretend to care about when negotiating salaries in order to keep down wages. - "Weeeellll... I can se that your Productiiiivity score is just at 74.3%, the average in your team is 77.6% so I'm affraid that it's really impossible for me to increase your salary as things are looking out. I'm reaaaally sorry. Have a good one!"