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I'm a bit worried that this will trigger some kind of move to measure productivity in increasingly crude ways -- i.e. exhaustive, invasive telemetry that tracks
by lordleft 4y ago
I'm a bit worried that this will trigger some kind of move to measure productivity in increasingly crude ways -- i.e. exhaustive, invasive telemetry that tracks every mouse click and keypress.
- gjvc 4y agogoogle for "employee monitoring software" to see how hard this is being pushed
- sn41 4y agoSnowcrash vibes. If you read an email too fast or too slow, you could be fired.
- falcolas 4y agoProbably. For every hard problem, there’s a bad technological solution.
- jollyllama 4y agoIMO In-person five days a week is preferable to dystopian tracking automation, not that they're mutually exclusive.
- dymk 4y agoWhy give an inch? Meta is struggling because they put all their eggs in one basket, and turns out that was probably not a good bet. And now they're struggling for it. That's leadership's problem. FAANG employees make up a group of some of the most hire-able employees I can think of. If leadership makes work hard, they will quit. (Baring H1B employees, they just get the shit stick all around, but that's not unique to this particular issue)
- Rayhem 4y agoTechnical people often believe using more/new tools will solve people problems. "If only we could measure more by better decomposing tasks in Jira, then we'd know how to be more efficient! If only we could add micro-specific tags to or documentation, then anyone can search for what they want and find the resource! We just need to put every single process anyone has ever heard of into confluence; then anyone can look them up and follow them!" Tools don't solve people problems because at the scale of people problems everyone has a different philosophy about the tool (and the problem). Communication is what solves people problems.
- dymk 4y agoCompanies are welcome to do that, and see just how fast their staff quit.