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Work is having us do Hogan Personality Inventory & Clifton Strengths in order to guide our extended WFH plans since some of us are looking at remaining primarily remote for a VERY long time, and I am... surprised by how many people are bummed by this?

We are getting paid to answer multiple choice questions, and the results will help us with career direction and systems organization tailored to each person. Yes, these tests are possibly boring as shit, but guys, we basically all had to take a semester of IO psych to get our various but interrelated degrees. We know the basics of why this is useful. And we're getting paid to take multiple choice tests?

I would certainly be bummed if we had to write essays, but this is a good move as far as I'm concerned.

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I think it depends on how introspective you are and how much money the tests cost your organization? Like, I'll cheerfully take personality tests for fun, but I'd be annoyed if my boss gave a bunch of money to a consultant to tell him things about me that I could've told him in a fifteen minute conversation.

Oh, yeah, I can see that given the perspective. Basically none of us have good senses of our professional development needs as far as the people I've spoken to, so I don't think any of it is anything we necessarily already know... but I'm sure some people are the exception to this. I personally have pretty much no clue where my results would be for either test so I've got no qualms as it seems to be a net positive. For me. CS especially seems to provide us and our ops director with a bunch of insight as to how to make the team dynamics work and since this is a new team for a new project and is our first major program that will be handled remotely I narrow-mindedly forgot that, uh, other people are more aware of this kind of stuff than I am.

Many of the complaints are just about having to take the time, which does not bother me. I can see how it might bother fee for service staff, but they aren't being asked to do this.

(Thankfully it's covered by the grant, which is HUGE, like we might not manage to use all the money in the time constraints provided huge. I cried when we got it.)

(Hurray for a grant that gives you flexibility!)

I parsed "IO psych" as "how electrons feel about being input and output" and thought: wow! That's a philosophy I could get behind.

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