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> Performative work includes “spending a lot of time in meetings where ‘teams present achievements’ rather than making decisions or addressing issues,” said Der
by yen223 3y ago
> Performative work includes “spending a lot of time in meetings where ‘teams present achievements’ rather than making decisions or addressing issues,” said Derek Laney, Slack’s “technology evangelist” for Asia-Pacific.
This...does not feel performative to me?
- version_five 3y agoCertainly feels like a better use of time than a lot of meetings we have in western companies.
- lisper 3y agoThink of "performative" as "putting on a performance". Then it makes sense. (Interesting that English has no words to distinguish the meaning of "stage performance" from "performance metric".)
- zingababba 3y agoI don't think it is either. Performative work to me is the compulsive self-debasing activity I engage in when there is line of sight to a superior member of the business hierarchy.
- _8j50 3y agoYou can say it is neccesary, but presenting achievements is performance, therefore performative. Powerpoint theatrics are not a bad thing, unless you spend most if your time on it.
- version_five 3y agoNo. Performative work means pretending to work so others can see. If your work involves an actual performance (even for a liberal definition that includes presenting something) it's not performative work, except maybe under some silly English language loophole.