Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Workplace Surveillance

Re:Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Work... by davesmylie on Friday November 27, 2020 @03:54AM (#25226723)

Twenty years ago I worked for a company that had in the past paid their contractors by LOC count.

Turns out if you base the pay on that ... why create a function and call it repeatedly when you can just copy and paste the same code block over and over again

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Re:Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Work... by taneq on Friday November 27, 2020 @03:57AM (#25226751)

As soon as a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.

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Re:Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Work... by patja on Friday November 27, 2020 @10:55AM (#25229652)

I have seen contractors do things like put 1000 lines of enum declarations for every integer from 1 to 1000. That's an extreme example.

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Re:Microsoft's Creepy New 'Productivity Score' Gamifies Work... by MeinBlutIstBlau on Friday November 27, 2020 @08:14AM (#25228433)

My lead would have a conniption if I ever did that.

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