Different strokes for different folks, but frankly managers don't care if a deadline greatly encourages or greatly stresses their ICs. Either way, it's a way to hold people accountable for a deliverable at a certain date, or at the very least an update why it was missed.
Not having deadlines requires much more nuance to ensure a team delivers work consistently, and unfortunately nuance in work management doesn't report well
If you are going to do this it's best to advertise that fact in your job ads. You want people who like to operate in that atmosphere in return for something - promotion, perk or vision. Otherwise you just get high churn rate and poor productivity.
Different strokes for different folks, but frankly managers don't care if a deadline greatly encourages or greatly stresses their ICs. Either way, it's a way to hold people accountable for a deliverable at a certain date, or at the very least an update why it was missed.
Not having deadlines requires much more nuance to ensure a team delivers work consistently, and unfortunately nuance in work management doesn't report well