Posted on 12/18/2023 4:45:08 AM PST by bert
If they aren’t getting their jobs done, fire them. If the company is afraid getting sued for firing them, downsize or eliminate their job, hire someone new under a different job title.
I estimate that 80% of work from home employees are doing the absolute minimum.
“The fellow who had moderate exposure got hired on my recommendation, and he is working out great, but we just got lucky.”
It was your knowledge and Wisdom that drove the decision. IT organizations are losing that at a rapid pace.
Hah!! Oh that is rich!!
I’ve seen projects where it’s comparable to building a tall building. You get 8 stories built, and the users request a new floor between floors 4 and 5. And they really need a basement.
Sort of got them by the short hairs. My first response is, FIRE THEM, but if they do that, they won’t have any employees. All just a symptom of the ungodly lack of ethics, work and otherwise. Whoever thought things like this would ever be a thing? Our society is crumbling under the weight of sin; and it IS sin.
My son was a teacher and assistant administrator at a private school. When the owner moved the school to 50 miles away from his home, he told her that he would have to quit or work from home 3 days a week, she readily agreed. He did all of her IT work, plus administration plus taught a few classes on the 2 days he drove into school. The school was in the Chicago area, and the commute was 2 hours one way, so he just couldn’t go in 5 days a week. It worked out good for him and the school.
That goes without saying, I would think.
I have hobbies, friends, and two sons who live out of state that I'd like to see a whole lot more than "working" as much as I do. :-)
It's time to enjoy the fruits of my labors and live my best life.
I worked at a large corporation for over thirty years and had been accustomed to having my own office for much of that time.
Then it was determined that a new department office building was needed, and the production manager thought it would be just a swell plan to set it up with an ‘open office’. To “facilitate collaboration”, he said.
It drove me crazy. After the morning planning meeting a certain engineer would regularly stop by my neighbor’s cube to talk about fly fishing. He had one of those voices that carries like a foghorn, and would sit nearby to talk for 30-45 minutes. Damned...near...every...day.
The aisleway past my desk turned out to be a thoroughfare for people coming and going from the building. It was a relief to retire, although I still miss interacting with some of my old coworkers.
I sit and watch my wife work from home every day. She is as writer for a healthcare system.
Here work product is measured, literally, by the subject and word count. Her productivity has increased about 10-15% throughout the pandemic. And, during the pandemic her projects increased to high levels. The output hasn’t slowed down.
Her department head actually allows her whole team to work from home now. They were able to free up workspace and expand coverage. She used to work for a single hospital. Now she able to work for two…plus some regional staff.
Office work was subject to lots of “drop in” stuff. Lots of time wasted going from one building to the next.
As someone who used to run big call centers I was very aware of remote users decades ago. I never thought you could get measurable performance improvement without the “human” touch. I was wrong.
I think it depends on the tasks, the people, and the metrics. She has a lot more “quick touch” meetings with her supervisor than she ever had before. There are three daily 10 minute review-the-day meetings with her various teams.
But she also gets to walk the dog and do laundry during the day. If she had to keep going into the office every day, she would have been hankering to retire two years ago. And we cannot have that…she would spend her time thinking about what I should be doing.
#23 The company I worked at when all were working from home sent out a email telling people not to start early and stay longer then their shift... some I imagined loved it while others hated that they could not finish some work they had to do.
The thing I think is interesting is the change in most corporate policies for working remote. I have been 100% remote for over 6 years now. The company resisted it for a long time, but now has come to the conclusion that where you are really doesn’t matter as long as the work is done. They moved offices about 3 years ago, and I don’t even know the address. I couldn’t locate my badge at this point.
If you’re self-motivated it is a great way to work.
Some folks are good candidates for working remotely, others aren't. The key is you have to be self-motivated to get everything done. Many folks who can't work from home were pretty useless in the office as well.
-——self-motivated——
There you have it. The key to the success of a home office
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