Re:Workers quitting over return-to-office policies
by chillwaves on Sunday May 29, 2022 @01:41PM
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I don't feel like your arguments support your assertion. There are multiple ways to run a company/do business/ship products.
Re:Workers quitting over return-to-office policies
by ameister14 on Sunday May 29, 2022 @01:45PM
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Sure, there are multiple ways to run a company, but people aren't machines. A pure focus on measurables to the exclusion of soft motivation and skill has proven to be less effective. I'm honestly surprised you believe otherwise.
This has borne out time and again from artisan shops to factories to software.
"make software development purely transactional and performance/pay would be directly tied to metrics."
That's what doesn't work to make good products. A focus on individual metrics to the exclusion of team dynamics doesn't work that well.
"What I'm seeing is a lazy, conservative mindset of people who feel scared and threatened by a reform shaking up the very core of a system they feel benefits them personally. "
I mean that's kinda what I was talking about with a bunch of managers not being able to hack it. I don't think you get what I was saying; if HR doesn't change, you get the same people trying the same model and applying it to a new framework, which will fail. You need a better focus on the people individually and on the systems you build for them to work well together and that requires a "people" or "HR" department that actually functions well and has investment.