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In one of the screenshots, it shows how many people are "following" an employee. This is reminiscent of Enron's peer-evaluation process commonly referred to as "rank and yank". Since employee evaluations were based on ratings made by their coworkers, this led to unpopular employees being fired, and other employees engaging in questionable business practices to stay on top.

I can easily imagining the type of boss who thinks this would be good for their office to also believe that someone who doesn't have as many followers isn't a "team player".



Actually, a big part of the utility of Yammer is early detection of crazy people.

It's also good to spot talent. We use this stuff for outreach and the "consulted", "informed" parts of RACI projects. Works well.


What are the situations where Yammer can help in terms of detecting troublesome employees? That's an interesting use case / benefit.


I would imagine it's great for detecting who is goofing off when they should be working. We've had it at our office for 2 years now and, as near as I can tell, only the people who want to look like they're drinking the corporate kool aid have accounts.


People write amazingly crazy things in a public forum. One guy wrote and posted a 40 page manifesto about why we should replace PCs with 3270 terminals. (Not kidding)

A support guy posted ASCII dick pic art in the all company forum.

We had some Bernie Sanders v. Ron Paul showdowns.

Overall, it has been really good. It's the go-to place for general HR questions. It's a great place to solicit testers and feedback. Definitely a net positive.


Kind of like what China is trying to do https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcTKWiZ8sI




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