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The worst part is that none of these are results-based metrics. These are precisely the kind of things you would measure if you want to create lots of extra me
by skohan 6y ago
The worst part is that none of these are results-based metrics. These are precisely the kind of things you would measure if you want to create lots of extra meetings and redundant communication.
It's also incredibly self-serving of MS. They have essentially defined "productivity" as how much time you spend using MS products.
I hope natural selection leads to the shuttering of all the companies which actually try to use this metric to optimize their organization.
- m463 6y agoIt's also worth mentioning the @ mentions in email are exchange-specific (afaik)
- prepend 6y agoI really like @mentions in email. They help me find specific stuff relevant to me. And also makes it a second faster to include someone in the to line. I wish they displayed better because in my org they show as “Prepend, Prependson (ABCD/YTD/Foo/Bar) (Contractor/Non-Contractor Status)” so it’s stupid looking in the body.
- ornornor 6y agoI’d hate that so much. People are already abusing CC and BCC in corporate email chains, having to simply @ someone to send them a notification or a copy of the email would make that problem even worse. MS always comes up with things that make working so much harder on the business/office/windows side.
- prepend 6y agoIt would be interesting to see if I include more people with this feature. I think that I use it only when I would have gone up and added them to the CC line, but I would have to try to call out what I want them to see in the email.
- skohan 6y agoYeah I feel like it's also adding a redundant extension to email, which is a perfectly good and time-tested technology. It's just one more way to create a wedge feature to create an inferior experience for people not using the MS product without actually adding any value over what's already available from CC/BCC
- daemin 6y agoYeah, that's what I thought. This is a measure of "how well you're using Microsoft software" so that Microsoft itself can use it to market more software and services to you.