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Hi, I am wondering how do you deal with disgruntled employees. If you are a dissatisfied employee, what would make you change your behavior, being valued, salary raise, etc. Also, what do you think about emotion analysis of the corporate Slack conversations to detect angry, stressed and undervalued employees? #hrissues #ai #emotionanalysis #security #manage #slack
Money always helps. Hard to go postal if you have heavier golden handcuffs.
Yeah well, does that solve the problem though? Definitely not.
I actually think that identifying conflicts in conversations, public or private can improve team growth and morale. That is why I am build a SaaS called TellTrail https://telltrail.ai to try to help employees and project managers to work better.
Jesus Christ
Great another shitty tool trying to replace conversation.
So if your company is ruthlessly downsized (depressing on its own if you liked your coworkers) and you give a teams work to one person, if that person is a optimist 1) they might seize it as an opportunity and have the idea they are now a star and can shine without competitors (this is how they hope you will react) 2) a pessimist would think they are trying to cut budgets and squeeze resources until they can find a way to kick me to the curb as well. Or get acquired then option b still applies. If no one tells you what the game plan is the smart person would choose option b.
Well, I don't totally understand, how your example is relevant to fixing bad managers. But in the situation that you gave as an example, there is no way to keep people happy. I have been through layoffs as well, nobody likes it even managers. If by " kick me to the curb" you mean they are trying to squeeze you until the product is reliable on its own and they need only sales-people. I don't think that is the case. In my personal experience, during lay-offs most of the non-senior not business-critical developers are let go. And only the minimum number of developers are kept so that the company can be still running, depends on the business of course. Developers and tech people are normally getting bigger paychecks than regular sales, marketing, business analyst employees. So it is normal that most of them will go during lay-offs. During lay-offs, people tend to get very selfish and think only from their perspective, very similar to what is happening under this post, here. Commenting on your two options. Your first option is fiction. And you're second option is wrong in most situations. Elaborating on your second option. Since the management decided to leave only a few key developers, on the project. My opinion is that, they will try to keep them on the team, because they know the cost of senior developers, and do not want to lose more resources than they actually need to. And developers get accustomed to the situation. Example: A lot of developers think that nobody will want to work in Uber after coronavirus. But as you see most people tend to agree that a few angry developers won't make a big difference.
Because employees will feel less disgruntled under surveillance. Yep. Sentiment Analysis is really only socially acceptable in politics and marketing right now.
Most employees become “disgruntled” only when they feel they have been treated unfairly. Mitigation 1: treat everyone equally according to the rules and culture of that company.
One doesn't vent out for no reason. Something wrong must have happened. Disgruntled is a label put by management to contend themselves with the reasoning.
Op, why do you hate people so much?
When I have issues with my employer it is usually because of upper management making stupid decisions. I don’t see monitoring slack as a way to solve the cause.
Yeah, I agree, but how do you define stupid decisions. The right decision is relative. And also who is telling Upper Management that you think decision X is stupid. Most of the time employees don't tell their managers that they have X or Y wrong, and that is why they don't change and everybody hates them.
I know a stupid decision when I see it.