[HN Gopher] Are Ghost Engineers Real?
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       Are Ghost Engineers Real?
        
       Author : Animats
       Score  : 4 points
       Date   : 2024-12-08 22:06 UTC (54 minutes ago)
        
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       | downrightmike wrote:
       | Just a Return to office shill article.
        
         | dave4420 wrote:
         | That's really what you took from it?
         | 
         | I thought it was clear that management was a large part of the
         | problem.
        
       | bookofjoe wrote:
       | https://archive.ph/ktmWZ
        
       | SavageBeast wrote:
       | "A Stanford researcher says data on programmer productivity
       | suggests 14 percent of remote software engineers get barely
       | anything done."
       | 
       | Having managed a team of in office devs, I can say that easily
       | 14% or more get barely anything done from the office. Low
       | performers are going to cash paychecks and underwork where ever
       | they are. Bringing low performers back to the office won't help
       | anything.
        
       | dlcarrier wrote:
       | From what I've seen, having a small portion of workers do
       | nothing, or worse yet reduce others' productivity is common in
       | all fields.
       | 
       | The latter especially so, in office environments, where getting
       | in everyone's business is used to feign productivity.
        
         | SavageBeast wrote:
         | "where getting in everyone's business is used to feign
         | productivity."
         | 
         | I see this so often, everywhere. The useless people make the
         | most noise, the productive ones are too busy.
        
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