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At my ex employer, every employee had an hourly rate in the system, I had thought of pulling the rates from the internal system into Microsoft teams, to display
by taherchhabra 1y ago
At my ex employer, every employee had an hourly rate in the system, I had thought of pulling the rates from the internal system into Microsoft teams, to display the cost of every meeting.
- maxclark 1y agoShopify did this - it’s frightening when you see the numbers across your entire org
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- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoThat feels like it might have perverse incentives if it were formally tracked. On the other hand, as a low level grunt, I would enjoy having some quantitative metrics about the topic. Who acts like this is a game trying to get the high score? Depending on how it was implemented, might also be possible to unblind people’s salary. A big no-no for a big corporation where there might be laughable pay disparity.
- vjvjvjvjghv 1y agoI (unsuccesfully) tried to make that point before: "You just spent $2000 of paid employee time for a meeting that achieved nothing but we don't have the money to spend $1000 on licenses for X". Didn't work
- lawlorino 1y agoI like this. To add: It serves as a strict lower bound, since it doesn’t account for the hidden cost of context switching etc.
- theshrike79 1y agoWe thought about this in 2002 already :) "Meeting cost calculator" where the cost of the meeting would tick up in real time on the wall. IIRC the idea was to have everyone tap their keyfob on a reader and it'd get everyone's hourly salary from a database and start counting the price by the minute.