And his boss would prefer he actually do something, any little thing, to earn the salary he is being paid.
Because quite frankly, despite the lovely tales that are spun about "how productive I am working at home" you aren't.
If you were, they would let you. It is certainly to their advantage to do so. But 98% of you are watching YouTube while nudging your mouse occasionally.
Remote working CAN be productive and to the advantage of everyone involved but you have to actually do some work.
And people don't.
“Remote working CAN be productive and to the advantage of everyone involved but you have to actually do some work. And people don’t.”
“Alexa! Do my JOB for me!”
“O.K.” *SMIRK*
Incorrect. I was 100% remote before Covid and last March I was one of two people who earned a company award for a huge and successful project, and that award came with a $1000 cash bonus.
My BFF works from home and does the patient scheduling for one of our larger hospitals. She’s one of many. She’ll be retiring in another year or so and is also battling MS so this works well for her at this point in her life.
When she was a Mom To Four, she worked from home selling Tupperware and Husband watched the kids in the evenings when she had to go out. She was way ‘up there’ in the echelons of their sales force. She is incredibly organized and efficient in all that she does. And she’s funny as h#ll, LOL! The kids are all college educated (with USEFUL degrees) and are terrific young adults.
Husband also works from home; he sells insurance.
Amazingly, they haven’t killed one another. Yet. ;)
So, working from home is perfect if you have the right skill set and actually WANT to do the work.
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.
I'm doing my job from my house in Pensacola, across nearly 1000 miles and 1 time zone boundary, for a department centrally located in Silver Spring, MD. However, for each one of me, there is probably at least one remote jerk-er playing pocket pool while pretending to work. Some people just need to be dragged by the hair back into an office building, even though it saddens me to say that.
They get twice the work out of me now that I work from home. I am much more productive.
Agreed. Particularly government workers that are the last to return to the office. If you can someone to pick up the phone it’s a miracle. So many stories of particularly women who “work from home” but spend most of the working day on home chores, etc.
One of my tenants, who works remotely writing gov’t grants, is often just watching netflix when I go into the apartment to do repairs.