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If there's a competitive advantage to not allowing your employees much freedom, then it may be impossible to find alternatives that actually survive and thrive.
by bigDinosaur 4y ago
If there's a competitive advantage to not allowing your employees much freedom, then it may be impossible to find alternatives that actually survive and thrive. A race to the bottom in everything but profit. I don't think just using the word 'freedom' here is terribly compelling for that reason if the market is converging on hostile-to-worker practices.
- Godel_unicode 4y agoThat particular strawman is looking pretty flimsy given the ample evidence that some companies (the ones I was referring to that have strong work/life balance) see a competitive advantage in providing freedom to their employees. Work/life balance makes people happy, which makes them do more work in less time with fewer errors. Everyone is aligned incentive-wise here, as long as management bothers to continue to learn.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoNot everything is a 'strawman' just because it doesn't agree with your experience. There is indeed an if in the start of my comment and it seems pretty remarkable to just leave it to chance and hope it all works out positively. It'll suck remarkably badly if it doesn't.
- BrandonMarc 4y agoIF being rhe keyword. If programmers as a whole do not tolerate such conditions, or if they are less productive, it won't be inescapable.
- bigDinosaur 4y agoI'm not aware of mass resignations altering the trajectory of an industry outside of organised collective action. Are there any examples?
- Godel_unicode 4y agoYes https://gizmodo.com/apple-return-to-work-policy-alphabet-machine-learnin-1848942742/amp https://gizmodo.com/apple-return-to-work-policy-alphabet-mac...