[cgbg]

Monitoring remote work requires competent managers.

Dumb managers can’t do it.

If the employees are not productive at home that is a clue that the managers in the organization need to be fired.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

So people work if they have someone standing over their shoulder every minute making sure they do their job.

Perhaps we should put these people all together in one area so one manager can get them off the dime. Like a big building where they all have to sit in the same room so it is easy to see who is working and who is just occasionally nudging their desk while they watch porn.

We could call this place, an office.

[ExSES]

Monitoring remote work requires competent managers. Dumb managers can’t do it.

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!