{"id":110553,"date":"2009-12-21T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-21T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2070-the-language-of-staffing"},"modified":"2009-12-21T16:06:00","modified_gmt":"2009-12-21T21:06:00","slug":"the-language-of-staffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/110553","title":{"rendered":"The language of staffing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your company is so big and impersonal that you call the people you have assets, resources, bodies, or any of the many other degrading terms available, you&#8217;re doing it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>When you talk about people, it&#8217;s clear that they&#8217;re neither interchangeable or mechanic. When you talk about people, you&#8217;re almost bound to care. Who cares about an asset or a resource? Everyone cares about Peter or Amanda.<\/p>\n<p>This language of impersonality usually comes from visions of growth for its own sake. Not because Eric needs some help and Lindsey might be a good choice. It comes because you&#8217;re envisioning a project so big and complicated that keeping names in your head would just make it pop. That&#8217;s a bad way to hire.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, push hiring down to the people who will actually care about names. So you might be building a 200-man mega project, but the team responsible for the design of the turbines are the ones in need of a few more hands. Not The Project.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=nkF3DGvwBXg:cjUKw_U0kIw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=nkF3DGvwBXg:cjUKw_U0kIw:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your company is so big and impersonal that you call the people you have assets, resources, bodies, or any of the many other degrading terms available, you&#8217;re doing it wrong. When you talk about people, it&#8217;s clear that they&#8217;re neither interchangeable or mechanic. When you talk about people, you&#8217;re almost bound to care. Who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-110553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}