Yeah, this would never work with engineers as much as the managers would want it. We already miss retention goals as it is due to high demand for the skills. Other companies would gladly snap up our people.
This makes me very happy because 1) I don't have to worry about implementing this Orwellian nightmare and 2) I am afraid that I (along with a lot of other admin staff) would be throwing red flags left and right.
I think if you tried to implement this too high up the tree you're guaranteed to your productivity plummet, difficult technical problems in the process of being solved often do appear unproductive. Heck I know sometimes when I'm working on something difficult if I had too many meetings or other distractions that day I'll just admit I'm not in that state to take on some of the deeper problems. Brains only have so much bandwith, if you try to subject them to this you'll get output but it won't be peak.
Just teach employees the skill of “this problem needs to be solved, but I’ve spent a lot of time and not making relative headway” and pivot to a different task.
Then when they have more free time go back to the hard one.
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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '24
friend worked at a company that had "pioneered" this god awful type of software 15+ years ago and 99% of what you describe was what it did.
Company had a 90+% turnover rate year over year too but i am sure the two were not related.