Re:How should we handle an over-productive employee?
by BlargMcLarg on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:45AM
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You're going off-track. Neither GP nor OP are talking about a person emphasizing their own productivity. OP is only "look at Bob being productive, how do we handle it" and GP criticizes your first reason to be critical of Bob. Not sure why you're inserting the whole "appearing to be productive" assumption here.
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Re:How should we handle an over-productive employee?
by BoxFour on Friday September 09, 2022 @10:52AM
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The response to me was that I must be in a bubble where I can’t imagine someone being significantly smarter and more productive than myself or my cohort.
My response was that I’ve met plenty of people far smarter than myself, but productivity wasn’t their defining character trait or even a particularly noticeable one.
Someone who’s “ultra productive”, like Bob here, is reason to be suspect for all of the reasons I listed in my original post.
Re:How should we handle an over-productive employee?
by Nevermark on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:14PM
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There are times in my career I was like Bob, lightening fast productivity, even relative to very smart people around me.
Much of my career, not as dramatic.
My view is the right person given the right work and low enough barriers can 10x their “normal” productivity level. Right work here means not just a technical, but a moral, aesthetic, curiosity, etc fit.
Bob seems to be intermittently getting those conditions.
ADDED: Management might want to strategically consider business opportunities for using Bob’s fast turnarounds. Higher rates for fast deliverables for instance.