Are You a Good Employee? Let’s Check With the Team
As work becomes more ever collaborative, it is getting harder to assess individual performance.
Time for another team meeting.
Photographer: Noah Berger/Bloomberg
Working in ever larger teams, often enabled by technology, is a fundamental feature of contemporary life. And yet the broader social and economic implications of this trend are rarely discussed — especially when, as will become increasingly common, one of the collaborators is technology itself.
Consider business. For decades now, big businesses have been on the rise in the US, which means employment in large corporations that use a team approach is increasingly likely. One effect of this is that individual outputs are harder to measure. If a product does well, it is often not clear who should get the credit, because the inputs of so many people were involved in creating it.