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You make it sound like employees are perfect and communicate transparently at all times. Many people lack the ability to be self critical and want to avoid conf
by beardedwizard 2y ago
You make it sound like employees are perfect and communicate transparently at all times. Many people lack the ability to be self critical and want to avoid confrontation. That often leads to surprises, a managers worst friend.
- betaby 2y agoNot op. But to refute 'You make it sound like employees are perfect and communicate transparently at all times' and 'surprises, a managers worst friend'. Modern workplaces forced quarterly reviews, thus there should be no surprises. In practise reviews actively prohibit employees from communicating transparently.
- pixl97 2y agoThe issues with any of these things is bad companies/managers burn lots more people than good companies, hence creating large numbers of people with zero trust in things like reviews. This is, if you've been burned by a company getting rid of you after being transparent, you are never going to be transparent again even if it would be in your favor. Then when you look at most companies thinking the most important thing is how much profit they are going to make next quarter that quarterly meeting stops looking like an event to see how you are doing, into one where the company determines how much blood they can extract from your withered corpse.
- beardedwizard 2y agoYour last sentence makes me think we agree. In my experience employees perceive they have much more to lose from transparency. If they are low agency, not actively bad and defer when asked what they want, you may be surprised when they finally quit.