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Devac  ·  513 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: U.S. workers have gotten way less productive. No one is sure why.

Yeah, I can't imagine how it looks now. Back when I was doing the night watch/human scarecrow gig, I was literally topping the charts as some employee of the month shit 14 times consecutively, because I came to work punctual, properly dressed, sober, and followed procedures. There was no benefit for it. The 50-something entitled bitch that was supposed to come after me was routinely late and reeked of booze two times out of three, but there was no penalty for making me wait 30-120 minutes. Unwanted overtime isn't a benefit. The supervisor went through some five stages of death shit when I resigned, and good riddance. Hopefully, I'll never again need to bother with that bullshit.

Positive (group) incentives don't require (individual) competition. Positive incentive isn't lessening the penalties. Both are trivial realization for anyone who doesn't do management or HR.