Re:One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 ho...
by acdha on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:29AM
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It’s very appealing because it tells people that the reason they’re not making more is not due to anything they could personally improve at but rather their employees taking advantage of their trust and generosity.
Re:One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 ho...
by username90 on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:16AM
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A managers salary correlates with how many subordinates he has, the more lazy people the better since then he can motivate to expand the team with even more lazy people. It all works as long as the managers superiors don't notice the entire department is lazy, so as long as butts are in seats the manager will be happy since it makes him look good for his managers.
Re:One-third of tech workers admit to working only 3 to 4 ho...
by acdha on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @10:09AM
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Lazy buys into a dysfunctional framing: it’s far more common to have poor or conflicting incentives. If managers are just measuring by how many seats are full, they are rather by definition getting exactly what they asked for.
It's ideological reinforcement for their target audience. Most managers and business types have no idea what their underlings actually do, but they have a suspicion that they are not the lean-mean-money-makin'-machine they (ideally) should be. So business-oriented publications like this pander to their fears and strengthen their resolve to whip slackers into shape.