On 04/12/17 00:37, Matt Turner wrote: > A user requested I forward this information to the mailing list: > > There's been research, on this, and the study by harvard business > school was summarized and discussed by NPR in 2015: > > [ Turns out toxic coworkers are more > than just an annoyance. A new study > out of the Harvard Business School > warns that bullying workers are more costly, > even if they are more productive. ] -- NPR description > > https://www.npr.org/2015/12/16/460024322/harvard-business-school-study-highlights-costs-of-toxic-workers > https://goo.gl/g8Ujuk (short URL of the same) > > With gentoo being a non-profit organization, an alternative way to > view it could be the trade-off of seeing developers / maintainers / > staff leave, and any "lost profits" are in the form of community > relations, image, and willingness for ongoing productive work by those > who remain with the gentoo organization. > > Research paper itself (which includes supporting 57 citations) > > http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/16-057_d45c0b4f-fa19-49de-8f1b-4b12fe054fea.pdf > https://goo.gl/42A8v7 (short URL of the same) > > ... and was itself cited a dozen or times: > > https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=5443947091657980238 > https://goo.gl/obvdzh (short URL of the same) > I refer you also to a former Gentoo developer's talk on "A$$holes on your project" ... [1]
[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZSli7QW4rg
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