Re:Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment
by mjevans on Monday February 03, 2020 @05:02AM
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The measure becomes the mark.
If touching points is all that's required, then that's all that will get done. The neural nets of all employees will eventually become trained to touch the points and not do the actual work you desire.
In the case of a security guard the 'real' job is to catalogue all things 'out of place' and then react if necessary.
Re:Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment
by sbr464 on Monday February 03, 2020 @05:08AM
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One of the more interesting examples of this is the NYC subway operators pointing at signs to show attention:
Re:Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment
by Razengan on Monday February 03, 2020 @05:21AM
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Reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14011793
“Why Japan’s Rail Workers Can’t Stop Pointing at Things”
If you're requiring someone pay attention to a monitor you can do the same thing - for example put a square on the image and require the employee to click it. Obviously though, this requires someone to actually critically think about protocols for ensuring work is done to a standard.