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> You received this email because my big data team analyzed your activities in Jira, Confluence, Gmail, chats, documents, dashboards and tagged you as unengaged
by BFLpL0QNek 5y ago
> You received this email because my big data team analyzed your activities in Jira, Confluence, Gmail, chats, documents, dashboards and tagged you as unengaged and unproductive employees
What a terrible place to work and measure of productivity.
- mjburgess 5y agoAnd let's be clear: those are all the things that productive employees avoid like the plague. What are you producing which is correlated with using any of those services? If more information comes out, it'll be a useful case study in using measures anti-correlated with your actual business objectives. This seems an extremely common practice by middle-management, whose activity is largely anti-correlated with aggregate business production. (Ie., middle-management activity should be operating at a minimum necessary for production; increasing it will cause productivity to drop).
- wayoutthere 5y agoThere’s an inflection point as a manager where you realize that your employees are better than you at a thing you used to do really well. So your new job is to put them on assignments that will help them grow, provide a safety net if anything goes wrong, and get out of the way. The flip side is that you have to trust people. I’ve certainly had employees who basically didn’t show up to work. Their team members complained because it was more work on them. That’s a situation where I stepped in, tried to figure out what was wrong, but ultimately had to let the person go because they hadn’t made a pull request in months and didn’t have a good explanation as to why.
- magicalhippo 5y ago> So your new job is to put them on assignments that will help them grow, provide a safety net if anything goes wrong, and get out of the way. I talk to my boss about once a week, social hallway chats excluded. Rest of the week I just do what needs to be done. He mentioned to me soon after joining that he had learned that the less he's in the way of us developers, the more productive we are. So he trusts us to do what we're assigned to do and handle issues that come up. Once in a while he'll come and ask me to handle some specific case ASAP or make sure I know some deadlines, but it's very rare.
- that_guy_iain 5y agoMy chats at times would be full of activity but I would have been complaining to co-workers about how crap things are. In certain roles documents and emails may show how much work you're doing.
- ssss11 5y agoAbsolute dystopia
- rightbyte 5y agoSounds like a caricature. I imagine there will be alot of "+1" posts and mention rings in Jira at Xsolla from now on ...
- swiley 5y agoAt that point why bother being an employee? You might as well just go make YouTube videos or whatever since the job security is the same.
- lordnacho 5y agoJust watch as employees everywhere start using bots to keep their engagement stats up. Boards will start to have GPT generated fluff that drowns out any residual use those tools had.
- throwaway14356 5y agothe age of the 9000x developer
- chippy 5y agoa terrible place unless you work in the big data team!
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- dncornholio 5y agoI'm known for high productivity but I'm also known for not checking my mail, am always behind in my hours log, etc..