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The technology for monitoring homeworking will be a very big sector over the next five years, to root out the slackers. You may be right, but the mindset of ne
by ryanwaggoner 18y ago
The technology for monitoring homeworking will be a very big sector over the next five years, to root out the slackers.
You may be right, but the mindset of needing monitoring technology to root out the slackers in your workforce seems symptomatic of a larger problem of lacking meaningful metrics for whether actual productivity has occurred.
- wallflower 18y ago> lacking meaningful metrics for whether actual productivity has occurred. I believe in the Pareto 80/20 rule and wonder some days whether I am falling into the other category (I don't believe it's static) I was joking the other day with my co-worker about a new chat status message. "Mike, Active, 15% brain activity"
- iron_ball 18y agoAmen. I'll submit to a webcam if that's what it takes to keep people convinced I'm working, but I'd much rather have them say "he got his work done promptly and well, he's a-okay."