Ask HN: What does your company do to keep you motivated other than pay?

Re:Ask HN: What does your company do to keep you motivated o... by strictnein on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:44PM (#13533050)

As someone also employed in a large multinational, I always enjoy the mass emails that detail the cool conventions that are being held in Vegas or <other nice locale> that thousands of my non-technical coworkers get to attend.

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Re:Ask HN: What does your company do to keep you motivated o... by kzisme on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:28PM (#13533555)

The one thing I dislike is that sales departments are treated like gold in some instances ie: sales rallies, bonuses, contests, free vacations, cars.

Where as IT/Tech departments miss out on a lot of those.

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Re:Ask HN: What does your company do to keep you motivated o... by zeal-technology on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:31PM (#13533607)

Do you think it would behoove a company to reward its other teams like it does its sales teams?

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Re:Ask HN: What does your company do to keep you motivated o... by kzisme on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @01:36PM (#13533680)

I suppose - I just find it strange that most of the IT initiatives directly support the success of a business, and when the company sends the top 10 producing sales team members to a free Caribbean trip, and buy luxury cars for others for a year I'm sure they could shell out something for other teams rather than buying a pizza or lunch every so often.

This is just an observation as well, so I could be completely incorrect in my thinking.

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Re:Ask HN: What does your company do to keep you motivated o... by zeal-technology on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:33PM (#13534363)

Its a great observation and one that I think has struck many people. I would be interested in hearing a sales person and development person put their views on the table about the subject so we could see both sides and compare motivators between the two roles.

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Re:Ask HN: What does your company do to keep you motivated o... by kzisme on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @02:38PM (#13534407)

I would agree! While I'm not looking for handouts or anything like that the email blasts (company wide) really do sort-of shove it in everyone else's faces unintentionally.

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Re:Ask HN: What does your company do to keep you motivated o... by zeal-technology on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:12PM (#13534749)

I might take action on this and ask our customers individually what they would like and compare across roles. If I sort this data I will definitely post my findings.

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Re:Ask HN: What does your company do to keep you motivated o... by kzisme on Wednesday February 01, 2017 @12:06PM (#13542477)

I think that would be very interesting - I hope you do sort it and share!

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Re:Ask HN: What does your company do to keep you motivated o... by zeal-technology on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:50PM (#13533139)

Attending events and networking is a great way for people to get out and change up the pace of work life and learn something new. I think that this is not done nearly as often as I would like it to happen. Especially in the tech world where things are changing at such a fast rate.

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