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Penalty for being late to a meeting
We are using Scrum and our manager decided that if somebody lates to the daily scrum (which is in the morning) he or she have to buy a piece of chocolate (or something like that) for the others. Is it ...
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How to encourage people to visit conferences or do anything else to improve skills?
We're a small team of around 15-20 people. Around 70% of them is really passionated in what they're doing, visit conferences, spend even their weekends on hackathons and have a big progress in their ...
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Participation in Product line testing
Once a week we perform a test where we encourage everyone who works on the product line (~100 people) to follow a script and test several different clients from the product line. At first we started ...
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How to stay motivated when it feels that senior colleagues aren't?
I passed out of my college with a degree in computer science about 2 years back and since then I have worked in a multi-national firm which pays me decently well. I am sincerely interested in ...
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How can we motivate employees to complete IT certificates?
Our company is an IT service provider which develops software for other companies. To attract customers, we encourage our employees to complete and maintain IT certifications (like Java certificates ...
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How can I transition from freelancing back to the Corporate Workplace? [closed]
I've recently returned to Conglomo America after 13 yrs; a few in a different industry and 10 self employed (web development). I'm used to working at my own pace which was probably 12-16 hr days 4-6 ...
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How can I reinvigorate my passion behind my work if nobody at my job really cares?
Over the past 7 months, I've been working at a company programming/improving small little utilities and also doing a couple mundane daily tasks. I've come to realize that my boss is a Mort (this is ...
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Employee with no aspirations
I have a employee who recently joined us. I know he has the skills, but unfortunately he seems to be busy gossiping rather than getting actual work done. He has made all the money he wanted to from ...
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How can I become a confident developer again?
So here's the story: I'm a recent CS grad who has been working for a government company for about half a year, not because it was my first choice, but because I took their university scholarship and I ...
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Effects of automated time tracking/monitoring
Our company wants to set up an automated time tracking/monitoring system. It will monitor every software developers' workstation and make statistics about their computer usage:
which program the ...
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How can I successfully change job fields?
I have made a career change from IT software developer to software developer in mechatronics. Though I am familiar and confident with the programming aspect of the job scope, I am not yet completely ...
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Does reviewing employees for raises by ranking them have a negative effect?
If a department is going through an annual review for its employees to determine raises (and/or potential promotions), does basing the review off ranking the employees against each other have a ...
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Is highlighting top performers a good idea?
The company I'm working for (a couple of 100s of employees) has recently started to regularly higlight "top performers" in the internal monthly newsletter. Has this practice been shown to motivate ...
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Avoiding unproductive days
Sometimes (usually once or twice a month) I have days when I'm in the mood to do nothing. When I feel like this, my work is sloppy and it takes 1-2 hours to clean it up the next day.
This is really ...
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After being cheated by previous employer, how can I get a positive mind-set for the next one?
I believe there was unethical and mischievous behavior from my previous employer that really damaged my employee-employer relationship. It happened quite a long ago, but I still can't achieve the same ...
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A previous manager burnt out employees, how can I help them recover and be more productive?
The previous manager repeatedly pushed his employees too hard to complete artificial goals earlier than necessary. After 2 years of some of the best employees quit and this the manager was removed, ...
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How can I motivate myself to work on projects I don't believe in or care about? [closed]
I am generally pretty good at getting stuff done. In fact that's my reputation. I am very productive as long as I think the project is interesting or think it will do a lot to help our company ...
