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>instead of a smaller number, with consistent skills, shepherding the project from start to finish. This is opposed to designs for deliverable-focused Quality a

>instead of a smaller number, with consistent skills, shepherding the project from start to finish. This is opposed to designs for deliverable-focused Quality and market fit. Ultimately, if companies truly valued this, they would've done more to keep talent. Instead the majority keeps looking for the fine line between "they will quit" and "they will stay", even going so far as disregarding the basic premise of "a happy, stress-free employee produces more valuable output". >I’m not sure that things are sustainable. Of course things aren't sustainable. Nothing points towards most companies aiming for sustainability in the first place.

danuker 5y ago
> a happy, stress-free employee produces more valuable output The output is certainly more costly, but does it bring in more income for the company? Are there any studies published about this? I imagine Big Tech would keep it as a closely-guarded secret.
- ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
  > The output is certainly more costly, but does it bring in more income for the company? Depends. A Mercedes is a lot more expensive than a Honda, but Honda's a bigger company. Both are quite successful, though. It depends on the metrics and targets.
  - bluGill 5y ago
    If I did the math right (euro vs yen, and wikipedia has different years) Mercedes is slightly bigger than Honda. Honda sells more cars in the US, but Mercedes sells much bigger trucks (freight liner is Mercedes), and both sell around the world.
- BlargMcLarg 5y ago
  Considering Google came back on its brain teaser interview practice and several other practices, I have a hard time believing their decisions are largely empirical as opposed to short-term rational. This is even worse for "happiness" since individual happiness extends all the way to communities and back into society. Not only that, happiness is very dependent on culture, upbringing, cost of living and more. However, even HR at small tech companies in Europe follow the basic idea of "if employees are happier, they will produce more output!". Assuming this isn't a pretty lie, we know people are generally happier not having to live paycheck to paycheck by force. We know people are generally happier not having to sit in traffic jams because of a 9-5, at the office mentality. Even modern hiring practices are based on distrust and making things more tedious for both sides of the equation, when there are solutions which would at least help the employer out. There's plenty of room for them to actually follow their own advice, and we have plenty of studies at least suggesting benefits of remote work, less hours, different work hours, etc.

danuker 5y ago

> a happy, stress-free employee produces more valuable output The output is certainly more costly, but does it bring in more income for the company? Are there any studies published about this? I imagine Big Tech would keep it as a closely-guarded secret.

ChrisMarshallNY 5y ago
> The output is certainly more costly, but does it bring in more income for the company? Depends. A Mercedes is a lot more expensive than a Honda, but Honda's a bigger company. Both are quite successful, though. It depends on the metrics and targets.
- bluGill 5y ago
  If I did the math right (euro vs yen, and wikipedia has different years) Mercedes is slightly bigger than Honda. Honda sells more cars in the US, but Mercedes sells much bigger trucks (freight liner is Mercedes), and both sell around the world.
BlargMcLarg 5y ago
Considering Google came back on its brain teaser interview practice and several other practices, I have a hard time believing their decisions are largely empirical as opposed to short-term rational. This is even worse for "happiness" since individual happiness extends all the way to communities and back into society. Not only that, happiness is very dependent on culture, upbringing, cost of living and more. However, even HR at small tech companies in Europe follow the basic idea of "if employees are happier, they will produce more output!". Assuming this isn't a pretty lie, we know people are generally happier not having to live paycheck to paycheck by force. We know people are generally happier not having to sit in traffic jams because of a 9-5, at the office mentality. Even modern hiring practices are based on distrust and making things more tedious for both sides of the equation, when there are solutions which would at least help the employer out. There's plenty of room for them to actually follow their own advice, and we have plenty of studies at least suggesting benefits of remote work, less hours, different work hours, etc.