Re:I quit the tech industry (2015)
by joeman1000 on Wednesday June 08, 2022 @06:55PM
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I’ve tried to talk to people about this for so long. This is the root of the problem with ‘office culture’ and just ‘work culture’ in general.
Productivity is the goal, right? Increasing worker happiness and reducing stress should be the focus. I think this will produce the largest effect on productivity.
Instead, we get sociopathic slave-driving at work: a narrow focus on KPIs, mandated hours of work and methods of working, prostration from micro-management (it can go on forever).
Working environments are low-trust and hostile, with no focus on what truly makes a worker happy, and what actually makes them productive!
Productivity is the goal, right? Increasing worker happiness and reducing stress should be the focus. I think this will produce the largest effect on productivity.
Instead, we get sociopathic slave-driving at work: a narrow focus on KPIs, mandated hours of work and methods of working, prostration from micro-management (it can go on forever).
Working environments are low-trust and hostile, with no focus on what truly makes a worker happy, and what actually makes them productive!