Some of these guys could be working at home creating software that can make your company obsolete.
Very very rare. Orders of magnitude more will have e.g. families that they like better than computers. Of the remaining, few will have business-killing ideas in the first place.
I agree that morale can play a part in the amount of effort and/or sophistication a given employee will put into their job.
As for SCMs, there are plenty of companies in the middle. I've seen companies whose deployment process consists of running "svn up" on the production server.
Very very rare. Orders of magnitude more will have e.g. families that they like better than computers. Of the remaining, few will have business-killing ideas in the first place.
I agree that morale can play a part in the amount of effort and/or sophistication a given employee will put into their job.
As for SCMs, there are plenty of companies in the middle. I've seen companies whose deployment process consists of running "svn up" on the production server.