Seeing the implementation would be a interesting, but certainly it can be powerful and bring transparency.
The man who built the online attendance system for India’s government officials
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#12I see this system as a force that compels people to work longer hours than is neccesary. Public access to this data will make people name and shame particular individuals in the bureaucracy who might consistently clock in a little bit late, even though the reason behind the lateness might be legitimate (caring for others in family or long term illness). This is not transparency it just makes bureaucracy worse.
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#13If you measure attendance, you will get attendance. However, there's no value in attendance.
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#14If you measure attendance, you will get attendance. However, there's no value in attendance.
Well they are government jobs (not necessarily programming/creative but say registrars) where attendance does make a difference
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#15If you measure attendance, you will get attendance. However, there's no value in attendance.
Well they are government jobs (not necessarily programming/creative but say registrars) where attendance does make a difference
I can't say for sure about the Indian government, but the US government employs a lot of programmers. So not necessarily not programmers, either.
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#16Hmmm, can be quite useful to thieves. Is this guy at work now? Yeah, than it's time to steal some stuff from his home.
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#17While I agree that attendance is a bad measure, knowing the Indian bureaucracy I welcome anything that makes it more accountable. Most of the organizations are filled with employees who have no interest / motivation in performing their duties, are unaccountable to their bosses or public and have no fear of loosing their job's for ANY reason.
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#18When I saw the screenshots of this article, it reminded me how much stress my indian colleagues were dealing with, a year ago. We have worked some time together on a project with Indian people (still friends with them, awesome people) and the way they explained their working environment was not really appealing at all unfortunately. They were indirectly forced to worked more than eight hours a day (around 9 to 10), a…
You are spot on. As an Indian I can confirm this behavior. Managers consider people as "resource" and treat them as "slave" (not an exaggeration). I hear lot of my friends use this exact word (slave) and I by myself felt the same way. They ask people to work for 10-12 hrs. (During 2007/2008 recession, companies like infosys/tcs increased working hours -8 hrs to 9 hrs -, even today, its the same hours).
Unless you are close to the manager (do some shoe-licking), working on Indian IT services is a hell,if you have conscience.
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#19Can someone point to the visualization libraries being used in the attendance website?
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#20Can someone point to the visualization libraries being used in the attendance website?
Looks like Highcharts.