Ugh It's making me puke.
The first day my employer starts using something like this I'll quit.
Peak - keep track of what everyone is working on
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Re: Peak - keep track of what everyone is working on
#52This thread cracks me up. All the worker bees are outraged, while the managers express interest.
I'm a manager and I think this product is wrongheaded. I don't care about bums on seats, I care about hitting milestones.
If I was a worker bee, I would write a script (on company time) to dribble my commits in automatically starting early in the morning and finishing late at night. Because fuck 'em that's why.
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
We shouldn't be encouraging idiot CEOs to do virtual shoulder-tapping. All the CEO's I've reported never needed to ask "Hey, so... how's it going..." because my team and I are delivering. Constantly. More than expected. Every single time. Isn't this the way it should be?
I don't think whether or not people are "delivering" is the question. Consider the context of the messaging they've built into the site/app: "Rebecca brought in two new contracts." As a CEO, this makes me say "oh, no shit, I should send Rebecca a thank you or offer up a coffee for helping my business to grow." Or another example: "Luke is less active than usual." If this popped up a handful of times, I'd probably wan…
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never understood this pessimistic sentiment. It's just more data. Of course when evaluating the data you get, you have to consider the context -- people work on all kinds of things that may or may not be measured. Without it you don't have those metrics anyways.
Once upon a time, I was working lots of all-nighters and really busting my gut. Yet my boss was getting angry at me for no reason. Wtf? So eventually I sat him down and asked if there was a problem. Turns out he was tracking the wrong user when monitoring my after hours data, and he thought I was lying about my overtime. He was fuming and thinking about firing me. Oh, you say. But he was just misusing the data! He sh…
> the takeaway is that many managers will use this kind of data as a crutch, not a supplement. The employees will suffer and the biz will lose good staff. How about treating your staff like fucking adults
I guess you have to ask yourself with what kind of people you want to work. Good/decent people (including managers) will use whatever data they've got to improve the lives of their co-workers and the prospects of the business. Where I work I have so much faith in the intentions and intellect of my co-workers I welcome sharing this kind of thing as I'm confident it will help me improve.
Not every workplace is filled with nefarious bosses out to spy on everything you do!
Re: Peak - keep track of what everyone is working on
#55I wouldn't want to use this to monitor other people, but I would love to use it as a tool for quantified self.