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What does the size of the company matter? If 5% of the workforce in a 100 person company slacks off, vs 5% in a 50k person workforce, why is should policy be an
by rescripting 14y ago
What does the size of the company matter? If 5% of the workforce in a 100 person company slacks off, vs 5% in a 50k person workforce, why is should policy be any different for the 50k workforce?
If you're implying the percentage of slackers scales non linearly as the size of a company grows then I'd love to see some research to back that up, as I'd be genuinely interested if that were the case.
- joshuacc 14y agoOne possibility is that as the number of slackers grows, the amount of damage that they can do increases at a greater-than-arithmetic rate, particularly if they tend to cluster together. For example, if 5% of a company overall is composed of slackers, but 25% of their customer support department are slackers, they may do outsized damage.
- fnordfnordfnord 14y agoSo get rid of them. The trick is to get rid of them without enacting policy that negatively affects the morale of your productive workforce.
- DannyBee 14y ago" Fundamentally, everyone wants to do a good job (the statistical outliers who do not follow this are not worth focusing policy on)" You have just said you should focus a policy on getting rid of them. I agree with this, but it goes against what the article just said to do. I posit this is because he does not have a large enough company to have enough slackers that he needs to deal with them systematically, and instead can simply deal with them on a one-off basis.