Posted on 07/04/2024 6:27:42 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
The bottom line of all this is:
Technology is never a substitute for good management.
It is not about the work at home issue.
I took time off in the office too.
And I still knocked it out of the park.
You are confusing being busy with being productive.
Our organization fired all the managers who could not understand the difference.
And if you can do that job from home, so can someone on the other side of the planet for a fraction of the cost.
And I am sure you are now magically the most productive company in the world and there will be peaches and cream for everyone tomorrow.
You are worrying about micromanaging time instead of properly measuring productivity.
Is the purpose of the organization to make sure every employee is busy every minute?
That makes absolutely no sense—is a brutal morale killer—and is an attitude that would get you fired from most organizations.
I would fire you in five minutes—but of course I would never hire you to begin with....
My breeder told me not to have my pup fixed until she was two years old, or to wait until after her second heat.
All you can do is pretend to work and hope you are not found out.
Lol—I am retired but was a subject matter expert in my day.
When folks like you appeared in the organization I would quickly notify senior management and get them fired.
So much of it is personality. I worked remotely for years when my son was little, and when my company decided to stop remote work, I went into business for myself and made a lot more $. I am extremely self-motivated and focused and I do my best work when alone. My daughter in law and son are similar. My hubby and son are not this way - they thrive in group settings surrounded by people.
I’m guessing HR has a tough job figuring out who has the makeup to work remotely well. I’m sure not everyone is good at it. 🤷♀️
It’s not just about management.
Hubby just put it perfectly.
When you work remote you lose synergy.
When you work remote you lose synergy.
People tend to look at one data point of a complex system and think they understand it. Liberals are good at this, they look at c02, and think they can control climate.
I remember a highly paid DEI promotion asking my advice as to "How can I make sure they are working". This was in a law enforcement agency where 95% of the staff worked in the field. She had come from a pseudo enforcement agency which required the subjects of their investigations to come into the office (which many did not).
I told her that the field investigators were evaluated by their timely completion of investigations and their success in resolving matters short of litigation. The very conduct of those investigations could not be done in an office from 8AM to 5PM. Eventually she accepted the fact that she could not micro-manage her staff though her region's performance was always sub-par in short order!
Good example.
The Department needs to set goals on timeliness, quality and any other criteria they choose.
Then they should not care if an investigator spends too much time in the coffee shop.
It just amazed me that so many work from home. Office work, paperwork. The people I know almost all do physical work: agriculture, construction, manufacturing, etc. So much paperwork to codify the actual production of real goods. I’m not knocking it; I just can’t figure it out.
After I made the break I'm not going back even if I wanted to. Out of sight and out of mind proved to be just as real as I ever suspected it would be. The changing of the guard did not help that one iota at all either.
It is possible to be a significant individual contributor or minor manager remotely but I can't see it for other functions. Even significant individual contributor problem solvers could have a hard time without presence. I have made very high powered dispersed teams work well in the past but it takes an effort to organize them in a joint effort.
To everything there is a season. Knowing when to leave can be the hardest thing of all to do right.
80/20 rule. 80% of employees are useless.
I am in manufacturing. Always have been. I don’t see how manufacturing could be done remotely. Even robots need an oil change once in a while.
Companies already outsourced every job they could overseas starting decades ago. I deal with companies switching those overseas jobs back to workers in other states because the foreign workers don't have the skills and knowledge.
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