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Why is it that big companies get this? In two weeks I'll be going from a nine person company when there's no working from home whatsoever under any circumstance
by boothead 14y ago
Why is it that big companies get this? In two weeks I'll be going from a nine person company when there's no working from home whatsoever under any circumstances to a ~250k person company where it's supposedly allowed. WTF?
- polskibus 14y agoIt's because of the relative importance of team cohesion on the output of entire company. In a corporation of 250k people, 1 (potential) slacker is max 1/250k lost output. In a company of 9 it is max 1/9th. It's all about risk management here, managing both probabilities and potential consequences.
- frozenport 14y agoIf we take the ML estimate, I would say that the 1/9th chance distributes evenly. So it is 1/9th loss for both cases. I have found that large corporations are able to capitalize better on incremental improvements and responsibilities are more narrow: hence they can tolerate less overall employee productivity. Also, they might be more experienced at managing people and understand that advantages that working from home bring. For example, taking care of your children so that you live in constant fear of loosing your job :-)
- polskibus 14y agoI'd disagree, based on my observations in both environments. Law of large numbers shows that it is easier to hide unusual behavior when number of samples is large and the observer is focused on aggregate-based performance measurement.
- polskibus 14y agoWhy the downvote? Would you at least polemicize with my argument? My observation comes from working in both a corporation and a small company. What is yours downvote based on?