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This whole "we elites know better than our hired knowledge workers" schtik would be more interesting if the knowledge workers ever really had any say in these c
by rektide 4y ago
This whole "we elites know better than our hired knowledge workers" schtik would be more interesting if the knowledge workers ever really had any say in these companies, if we had anything other than the traditional machiavellian top-down org to study & observe.
It's all a-technical product orgs pushing demands down to the technicals, everywhere, far as the eye can see.
But instead the dismal of the knowledge workers is just embraced, by anti labor disbelief like this, just chalking up the people who know systems & what we could do & their hopes as irrelevant. Strong disagree.
- postmeta 4y agoZappos' "holacracy" kinda tried, and Valve has tried: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9aCwCKgkLo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_organization https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holacracy
- solatic 4y agoI don't disagree with you, I just think it's an orthogonal concern. Arguably, companies reach better decisions (and thus perform better financially) when labor has a seat at the table; better financial performance should (but doesn't always! see recent layoffs) result in more stable employment and more opportunities for advancement. But that's beside the point about what labor's primary interest is and what the Board's and the shareholders' primary interests are.