cocacola1 a month ago

Blessed are the leakers.

Though, more seriously, I’m curious how effective anti-leak efforts actually are. I mean, the Nintendo Switch 2 was basically a fully formed product many knew about before Nintendo actually announced it officially.

  • rsynnott 25 days ago

    In general, the main way to make people not leak stuff is to make them not _want_ to leak stuff. If, say, it is important to the company that product A not leak, and employees generally want what is important for the company, it probably won't leak.

    The leak Facebook seems unhappy about basically seems to comprise the CEO saying stupid things to employees. There's probably no way to stop that leaking; no-one has any real interest in keeping it secret. In general when a company irritates its employees, _that_ will almost always leak.

parpfish a month ago

Employees start leaking when they feel like they can’t advocate for change through proper channels inside the company AND they care about the work that they’re doing.

So to stop leaks, you either need to let employees drive some decisions (even if it’s unpopular with your stockholders) OR cultivate a workforce that doesn’t care and are just in it to cash their paycheck.

  • quantified a month ago

    I think option 2 is the destination.