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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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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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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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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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Short term impact of the changes implemented because of the Employee Financial Wellness Initiative are:
- Fewer employees report they are running out of funds between pay periods.
- An increase in healthcare benefit enrollment and employees upgrading their plans.
- A high...
Stock Options: Turning Employees Into Co-owners
Free food, Beer taps and ping pong games in the break room do not help employees feel connected with the company's vision, mission or direction.
Employees prefer equity/stock compensation, the non-cash payout they get by being allocated restricted stock options.
Employees the...
Mark Zuckerberg Productivity Tips
- Make decisions that matter.
- Zuckerberg wears almost the same thing every day, so he never has to spend brain time wondering what to wear each day.
- Set annual goals. It is easy to get bogged down in the day to day details a...
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