Posted on 11/03/2022 10:50:53 AM PDT by aimhigh
Employers would be prohibited from measuring performance and productivity?
Well, I’ve been doing my job from home for over two years without needing to go to the office. Reckon this means the company will force us all back into the office, so I can take a paycut paying for insanely priced gas to do the same job I’ve been doing quite well for over two years so that they can babysit me more closely.
I’m sure the NLRB will cite Congressional legislation that gives them the specific authority to do this.
Fine, just send your plan through Congress.
The Administrative State strikes again.
Agreed—remote work is totally dependent upon such monitoring.
A few weeks ago I got a list of my employees sorted by how long it has been since they had been at work. This was to be used to show leadership how our transition from telework to in person work was going.
My very best employee was listed as having not been at work since April. The VP wanted me to explain. Well, that employee was in the office with me when I got the email.
We walked up to the VPs office and told him his data was suspect.
Not really, in my experience.
When I was working remotely my employer had the same criteria for productivity as when I was in the office. Make your numbers, no problem.
I’ve heard of this happening at my wife’s place of employment. Some supposed report said one of her co-workers had not logged in, or been at the office for several weeks; the person was either online teleworking or there every day but one (where she was sick).
My employer has the right to my maintaining productivity, and the right to fire me if I am proved to misbehave, that is all.
It’s none of the government’s business. Now, on the other hand, employers who monitor employees email/web usage are probably not managing their employees well. It’s fine to have web proxies to stop employees from accidently visiting malicious sites, but good managers know what their employees are producing and know how to keep their employees busy doing meaningful work so there isn’t time to screw around. A busy worker is a happy worker. It’s a matter of focusing on the correct problems.
I'm sure that the employment contract states that employers have the right to verify that the employees are fulfilling their obligations per the terms of the contract.
Is this labor board now suggesting that employers are not allowed to verify that their contracts are being executed properly?
-PJ
Yep, when I log into work, I immediately join my team chat, start working issues, and communicating actively with coworkers. IF they try to say “You didn’t work”, I just have to tell them to review all tickets from my team for the last two years and find my electronic signature on all the issues I’ve worked.
I dont mind the FACT of monitoring, but I do want employers to be required to disclose what is being monitored.
Directive 10-289 is here
If they don’t trust me, then they should fire me. That’s how I would roll if situations were reversed.
It comes back to the classic argument- if you have an employee who is doing 150% of what their co-workers are, with higher quality, and they screw around on FB (or FR) a couple of hours, is there an issue? It depends on if one is hired to produce (I am) or if one is hired to be (or look) busy. But some places put a higher value on LOOKING busy than on getting things done.
Some micromanagers can’t *stand* the sort of person who can bang out as much work in 3 hours as anyone else can in 8 or 10. They are usually the reason the best people leave the job. My best friend’s current boss doesn’t give a damn; it’s funny to hear about the less productive droids trying to tell the boss that ‘Chris is doing this or that on his computer’; Chris has already done more work by 11 (and better work) than the whiner will all day.
Too bad they can’t cite an enumerated power for the legislation.
Yes, years ago I had a manager who loved to foster distrust and dissension among the team. “Some people are *concerned* that they see you surfing news sites”. “Some people”? “Concerned”? Okay so what you’re telling me is I have to watch my back for all the little tattle-tales that are stabbing me in the back and telling stories.
And those little Karens are are the ones who need every minute of the day to do 3/4 of the work they should be able to handle, and it’s usually piss-poor quality.
You can either do the work in a timely manner with acceptable quality, or you can’t. The complainers usually can’t.
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