Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home
by theshrike79 on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:40AM
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> If you can automate the observation, you can automate your observance of the observation. The symmetry is great.
Never measure the productivity of engineers with plain numbers. They will just take it as a challenge on how to optimise for that particular measurement.
Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home
by wayoutthere on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:04AM
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Not even engineers; this is true of all business. Any metric defined quickly becomes a goal whether it was intended to or not. Once you attach incentives to the metric, it will be focused on to the exclusion of everything else.
Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home
by nlake906 on Friday December 17, 2021 @09:28AM
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Easier said than done, but if you can manage to set up the metric to align the business and the employee, life becomes very easy for management. Working on designing and implementing production-based pay systems in warehouses, when it goes right the department runs itself with barebones management as a little profit generating machine that fairly pays workers a very good wage. When it goes wrong though...
Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home
by wayoutthere on Friday December 17, 2021 @09:45AM
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Yeah, the problem comes in when the dynamic changes and you’ve overoptimized for the old dynamic and don’t have any ability to flex within the systems without totally overhauling them. Hence the current supply chain problems…
Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home
by throway453sde on Friday December 17, 2021 @07:10AM
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> If you can automate the observation, you can automate your observance of the observation. The symmetry is great.
Nice quote.
Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home
by marcosdumay on Friday December 17, 2021 @08:50AM
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> if you’re clever/motivated enough to end run it, your clever enough to not need this anyway.
Except that controlling people changes their motivations.
Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home
by vladf on Friday December 17, 2021 @05:08AM
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What about adding a captcha?
Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home
by sigio on Friday December 17, 2021 @06:45AM
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Outsource it to amazon mechanical turk, or something equivalent ;)
Pay a dollar to have someone else fill it in.
Re:There's been a big rise in monitoring workers at home
by justinlloyd on Friday December 17, 2021 @02:07PM
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Simple CAPTCHA work pays 3 cents. Ask me how I know.
If you can automate the observation, you can automate your observance of the observation. The symmetry is great.
It’s even kind of poetic, because the more creative type of person who is less valued as a drone is the type of person to extend the effort to do this, whereas the clock-in-clock-out type with less investment and motivation is less likely. Sort of a “if you’re clever/motivated enough to end run it, your clever enough to not need this anyway.”