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Metric Fixation

Metric Fixation

Metric Fixation, an epidemic in most of the world's biggest companies is a way to measure employee performance primarily by numbers, counted, tallied, compiled and analyzed in daily, weekly or monthly intervals.

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Millions of Hours Lost

Millions of Hours Lost

On a macro level, metric fixation can lead to companies focussing on the quarterly report while ignoring any real R&D work, that takes years to provide any result.

Companies also suffer millions of hours of productivity loss due to employees maintaining performance records, a lot of expense...

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Ignoring Real Values

Ignoring Real Values

Metric fixation can make employees ignore the real values and goals of the company and focus on their short-term weekly or monthly goals so that they keep their jobs, get a pay raise or have their stock options out at the right time.

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Incentivizing Leads to Gaming

Incentivizing Leads to Gaming

The rewards of the metric performance measurement can be as a form of a monetary bonus, stocks or just an enhanced grade or designation, leading to competition among employees. This leads to many employees gaming the system to affect the bottom line of their metrics.

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At the beginning bring in one customer at a time to avoid becoming overwhelmed by the demands of larger numbers.

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Tracking goals with meetings

Track your progress towards said goal week by week. This is called continuous performance review. 

Weekly status meetings are used in most companies. But you have to be careful with them as they can become pointless very easily if you haven’t set clear goals first.

Metric and Customary Systems

Metric and Customary Systems

A brainchild of France, the metric system, or decimal-based measurement protocol, has not yet been adopted fully by many countries including the United States. This results in a different measurement unit for just about everything.

The U.S. Customary System is an inch-pound system having a...

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