Re:Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?
by groby_b on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:38AM
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> Work expands to fill available time. Will my employee use that time to the company’s advantage?
Take a management class or three, it'll save you a lot of money.
Seriously. If that needs to figure into the evaluation of the service, something is deeply broken in the culture of your company. Not because employees goof off - it happens, and only some amount of that is under your control. But because you assume that given any chance, people would goof off more.
That's far from normal. It usually happens if employees feel mistreated, or if they're not given a fair share of the value they create. Possibly if they're already halfway to leaving.
Re:Show HN: Is It Worth the Cost?
by projektfu on Tuesday July 14, 2020 @11:58AM
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You’re adding value judgements into it that are not there. A person can be working, accomplishing the same amount, and take 35 or 40 hours to do the task, without goofing off.
Take a management class or three, it'll save you a lot of money.
Seriously. If that needs to figure into the evaluation of the service, something is deeply broken in the culture of your company. Not because employees goof off - it happens, and only some amount of that is under your control. But because you assume that given any chance, people would goof off more.
That's far from normal. It usually happens if employees feel mistreated, or if they're not given a fair share of the value they create. Possibly if they're already halfway to leaving.