Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by rootusrootus on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:13PM (#24413454)

The problem is that nobody can even define output accurately. I know people who output more in 25% of the time than some of their peers manage at 100%. But that's not how compensation in this industry is structured, so it is moot.

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by nicbou on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @05:47PM (#24413872)

Sure, but it's fair to say that if someone has 75% availability and must miss meetings because of external events, their output is affected.

Besides, I am talking about a drop in output for a given employee, so the comparison to other employees is pointless. If my productivity dropped by 25%, I'd hear about it pretty quickly, and I doubt my explanation would matter much in my performance review.

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by rdtwo on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:03PM (#24414063)

Your company must have some good metrics or they are measuring clicks per minute if you think they would notice 25% output growth very quickly. Likely you just wouldn’t get promoted and that might happen to your coworkers in due time

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Re:Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees du... by nicbou on Tuesday September 08, 2020 @06:20PM (#24414238)

You are getting hung up on arbitrary numbers in a fictitious example

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