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If you can't tell the difference between a remote employee who is working hard and a remote employee who is slacking... ...is there really a meaningful differe
by TigeriusKirk 5y ago
If you can't tell the difference between a remote employee who is working hard and a remote employee who is slacking...
...is there really a meaningful difference?
- librish 5y agoYes. If you could clone the same person working on the same task it would be trivial for anyone to see which one is working hard and which isn't. The problem is that you can't do that so now you're left with having to measure their performance in some other way. That is very hard and noisy.
- jfrunyon 5y agoWhy is your idea of an employee's value relative to who that employee is?
- librish 5y agoMainly that people are good at different things so I wouldn't want to compare two people on only one task. I don't really see how that interjection is particularly relevant for the point I'm making though.
- jfrunyon 5y agoOkay then what do you compare people on? If you're not comparing them against other people who can do the same job... The point you made is that you think it's only a fair comparison if you can clone the same person. Which is simply false unless your determination of a person's value is dependent upon that person rather than upon their output.