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You can hire to outpace your competitors without having them do "fake work" once hired (whatever that means). It doesn't make much sense to not fully utilize p
by sidfthec 4y ago
You can hire to outpace your competitors without having them do "fake work" once hired (whatever that means).
It doesn't make much sense to not fully utilize people once hired.
- wnevets 4y agoI'm not convinced most people at very large companies are doing "real" work most of the time anyway. Wouldn't need to do anything special at these large companies to create fake work just for these people, it would just be "regular" work.
- sidfthec 4y agoI don't understand why this sentiment is so prevalent. It's like people watch Silicon Valley the TV show and think it's actually representative of big tech. I don't know anyone who does what I could consider "fake work". Unless you think anyone who doesn't measurably and immediately impact the bottom line is doing "fake work".
- wnevets 4y ago> I don't understand why this sentiment is so prevalent. It's like people watch Silicon Valley the TV show and think it's actually representative of big tech. I'm not limiting this sentiment to just big tech. For example very big companies tend to have a large number of people who do a lot of talking without saying actually saying anything. I would argue being trapped in those long meetings is "fake" work. The large number of employees working from home since COVID has shown most of those long meetings didn't need to happen. Now that the four day work week is gaining momentum with no lost of productivity[1] we have even more proof of the amount of "fake" work being done. [1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/business/four-day-work-week-uk.html https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/22/business/four-day-work-we...