J Wolfgang GoerlichLOLs per Employee: a vital metric.
Shenanigans are a sign the team has sufficient energy in reserve, signaling readiness for handling emergencies and unplanned work. Play usually reflects underlying trust, cohesion, and resilience.
Encourage it.
George BCan't wait to see this one fall to Goodhart's law
twifkak@gbargoud @jwgoerlich Already has. My company has increased its frequency of "fun" events like escape rooms, to combat the dread and sullenness caused by their continuing mass layoffs. They... haven't worked.
@jwgoerlich @gbargoud And you do not need to! Fun is a natural consequence of people feeling safe (in all senses, including psychologically).
The somber film https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Falling made this point rather poignantly.
Gábor Melis@jwgoerlich
Vibes of anyone who is still stressed by the end of the day - WILL BE FIRED! LOL
Vibes of anyone who is still stressed by the end of the day - WILL BE FIRED! LOL
AndroidDreamer@melisgl @jwgoerlich Did I detect a reference?
Not a Spring OnionRelevant IT Crowd scene:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da4PhXJzDcs
The IT Crowd S01E02 - Are You Stressed, Jen?
NightDice 
Dan Cornell@jwgoerlich True!
I came back to the office a couple of years ago to find everyone in the common area playing "baseball" where the bat was one of the empty five-gallon jugs for the water cooler. Shit's knocked over. Everybody is gawking. Nobody is doing work. I was getting all puffed up and ready to bitch at people and then noticed that the person at-bat was one of my business partners
So I got over myself and waited my turn to bat...
Learned a bit of a lesson that day
Drew Scott Daniels@jwgoerlich Patrick Stewart says he gave a speech to the Star Trek cast in season one about being needing to be serious, and was laughed off. He felt pompous right after he said it. After that, he was one of the leaders of the shenanigans. A better telling with more details is in his autobiography, and elsewhere.