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Sure, but "were they in the office" is /much/ easier to measure at scale. And I'm sure you'd throw a pretty big fit if your pay was docked because the company d
by jasonlfunk 3y ago
Sure, but "were they in the office" is /much/ easier to measure at scale. And I'm sure you'd throw a pretty big fit if your pay was docked because the company didn't think you did a good enough job, even though you were in the office.
- skywhopper 3y agoAlas, “this metric doesn’t track what we care about, BUT it’s easier to collect, so let’s use it” explains a lot of really bad policies and practices in our world.
- richardfey 3y agoLet's start measuring keys typed per hour next! It correlates, thus will work even better at scale.
- postalrat 3y agoYea but only for keyboards that can't be removed from the office.
- NBJack 3y agoYou joke, but many companies are already measuring code velocity for developers as part of performance.
- richardfey 3y agoLet them be, I'll stay in the industry as long as there's choice
- TrickardRixx 3y agoIsn't this literally how employment works? If I'm sitting in the office not doing my job, I get fired. (Pay docked to zero, in a way.)
- mensetmanusman 3y agoYou don’t need to measure at scale, you just ask each supervisor to measure at micro-scale and provide more relevant feedback than a binary reader.
- jjk166 3y agoYou "just" need thousands of employees to do additional labor. And then you need to process all of that data, including adjusting for the variability in how supervisors measure performance.
- mensetmanusman 3y ago“How is your team doing on a scale from 1-10?” might be more valuable than adding up the number of minutes people are breathing the office air.
- jjk166 3y agoSo if I said 8, what does that mean? What actions should be taken as a result? What value has been generated in collecting that data? Attendance might not be a perfect proxy, but this is way worse.
- mensetmanusman 3y ago8 means, ‘great, everyone is performing above expectations’