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And that's why performance tracking is prohibited in countries where unions still have a bit of power.
by oezi 1y ago
And that's why performance tracking is prohibited in countries where unions still have a bit of power.
- bloppe 1y agoYeesh. Prohibited? Then how do you decide who gets a promotion? At random?
- OlivOnTech 1y agoYou have human managers discussing with their team (instead of human-decided metrics that cannot see the full picture)
- bloppe 1y agoAs companies grow, they tend to move away from subjective performance reviews like that and toward more objective metrics. Otherwise, it's too easy for personal politics to contaminate the promotion process. Employees are incentivized to find whichever manager will give them 5 star reviews no matter what, and managers are incentivized to be that guy, because then they have access to the best employees. When a company is small, and everyone knows everyone, this is not an issue. But when 90% of the company is a stranger to you, you need more objective metrics to rely on.
- thunderfork 1y ago[dead]
- ehnto 1y agoNot that hard, but also why would you want to promote based on metrics? That will get you people gaming the system, and I can't imagine a single software dev metric that actually captures the full gamut of value a dev can provide. You will surely miss very valuable devs in your metrics.
- bloppe 1y agoI didn't realize "performance tracking" actually just meant "blind metric tracking". Are there lots of rules to differentiate the good kinds of metrics (like actual outcomes for customers and co-workers) from the bad kinds of metrics (like time spent using an LLM)? Sounds like this is all about treating a symptom (poor business leadership) rather than a root cause (noncompetitive markets).
- lnsru 1y agoThere are no real promotions. It‘s about employment duration. In Bavaria you have like 12 salary groups. For white collar workers 9 is entry level, 10 is for some experience, 11 for experienced and 12 is the carrot to work harder for. Some companies do some downgrade to pay less. Group 8 for experienced folks job ads started appearing recently. The bonus is up to 28% depending on the performance. So basically you can slack all day, have +5% bonus on the base salary when someone doing overnighters will have +15%. The higher bonuses are reserved for oldtimers. This system is absolutely cringe. Btw most of these unionized companies offer 35 hours contracts. 40 hours must be negotiated as a bonus… Anyway union will take care of regular base salary increase, that’s really nice. +6% for doing nothing good is amazing!
- DocTomoe 1y agoThis describes payment and promotion functions in one unionized job sector in Bavaria. Many German companies are not, in fact, unionized, and tend to pay 'übertariflich / außertariflich' - instead of union protection, they just pay you significantly more than you'd get with an union job. Which is a good thing 9 out of 10 times.
- lnsru 1y agoI heard during two decades only single time about small company paying significantly more. The guy is specialist. There are handful of them worldwide. He was absolutely perfect fit and super desired candidate. Never ever heard more about small companies with serious salaries. It was always -20% or -30% from union tables be it in Bavaria or Baden-Württemberg. Special case might be small establishments of American companies with great salaries, but this is different topics. And some statistics at the end: https://karriere.de/mein-geld/gehaltsstudie-diese-20-unternehmen-zahlen-in-deutschland-am-meisten/ https://karriere.de/mein-geld/gehaltsstudie-diese-20-unterne... So no, not unionized smaller companies pay less with possible exemptions for key employees.
- DocTomoe 1y agoTruth probably is somewhere between my extreme and your extreme ... but I have - in 20 years of working in the country - not once encountered a situation in which an AT-contract I saw was not significantly better than an union contract when it came to compensation - both from some of the largest - and 100% pure German - conglomerates, and in the KMU sector. Which - incidentally - is why such companies advertise paying 'außertariflich' in their job adverts. Situation might be different for low- and non-skilled workers.
- rapsey 1y agoAnd why those countries tend to have barely any growth in their economies (i.e. europe).
- pjmlp 1y agoIt is ok, I earn enough to pay my bills, the ones from my family, a bit of travelling around and healthcare. Usually over here we don't dream of making it big with big villas and a Ferrari on the garage, we work to live, not live to work.
- rapsey 1y agoFrance and UK are in giant fiscal crises. The German economy is in the toilet with no hope in sight. All of them have seen large deterioration of the quality of health care in the last decade. The EU leaders care more about Ukraine and destroying all privacy than any economic reform.
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- deaux 1y agoKorea has strong worker protections and unions. Not on tracking, but in general.