Posted on 01/19/2024 11:30:57 AM PST by ShadowAce
Different businesses, different cultures, different results from remote work.
My wife’s BF works for SafeLite. They went from a call center to all remote during COVID. After COVID they decided to sell the call center and stay all remote. Funny thing, once the employees knew they weren’t going to go back to an office, productivity plummeted.
Sandra (the wife’s friend) said that these threatening emails went out to everyone about productivity and number of times one can take a break while on the clock. At first they wanted permission to access the employee’s cameras on their computers. That didn’t go over well, so they went with software that just monitors their activity. Then the employees discovered that the software is basically never off so they switched to something that ONLY monitors the employees while they are logged onto the company system. The whole thing was a mess.
The latest word is that they really aren’t saving a whole lot of money with the remote employees and are once again looking for a physical location for a call center.
I was an engineering manager who had employees who did it.
This is a way to get people to quit and/or a way to hide a glut of rented, expensive office space.
lol it depends, how is my supervisor who lives in iowa is suppose to give me a better accurate picture performance when i live in virginia?
i push the same button to deploy codes that i wrote for myself so i can do my one week work in 10 hours at home
when i go to work, I’m the only person in virginia from my dept, in a big empty room. i don’t even have to work that hard at work as i would walk around and visit other dept to get away from my empty room, my team status can stay yellow all day.
at home, the team status have to be actively green, so i actually do some “work” having to jiggle my mouse every 5 minutes.
“My wife’s BF works for SafeLi”
No offense dude but when I first read this I though my wife’s boyfriend! :)
the reality is some job can’t be done at work and that’s fine.
for my case, i just need a pc and i can work anywhere, heck i was even thinking about taking a vacation while working.
or try to get another job that let me work from home, imagine an employee who secretly works from BoA and Citibank at the same time. it is possible.
Ah... your company hired some crappy people who took advantage of crappy leadership and that makes teleworking a bad thing for everyone, everywhere, all the time.
Makes perfect sense to me....
IBM has been doing bloodletting cuts to senior staff since Watson was riding the elevator..
Quote: “ I don’t care what any of these telecommuting workers say. They do not work as much at home as they would have to actually at a workplace, period.”
That is in the money. But so is this. They (corporate America) hopped on the Covid bandwagon. They loved it and hopped on it. They opened the bottle and now want to pretend that they can stiff the Genie back in it. They can’t. They will lose the best and keep the worst.
Good luck with “back to the office”.
Remote workers can be pushed to deliver no differently than on-site. The main difference is making TEAMS gel, especially with new hires, and especially especially(!) with new hires that are fresh graduates. The latter often need some supervision, along with making sure they learn good, professional, practices and behaviors.
Seasoned pro’s can be given tasks and delivery dates, then be trusted to meet them. It usually becomes clear if one of them is a problem. We do lots of face to face webex style meetings. I’d argue the main instance where you need to be together is white-board brainstorming, when it isn’t clear what is needed to be done or how to go about it.
We had a policy of 3 days in the office, Wednesday required. It’s usually enough for such sessions to happen.
These are great, but that’s not a college course.
Testing and evaluation, networking, in person communications, tutoring, help by the instructor, labs are all not possible or reduced severely in their effectiveness with on-line.
Part of a college class are the debates, the off record communications with an instructor that dispenses personal experience which runs contrary to what’s in a textbook... With most of these online classes the instructors are basically handed a complete course and told what to do say with little to no input by them. They are a highly qualified presenter and no more. Also, the lack of physical interaction face to face is a concern since people need that.
Technology can be great. But trying to use it beyond its actual effective limit doesn’t work well.
“I don’t care what any of these telecommuting workers say. They do not work as much at home as they would have to actually at a workplace, period.”
If by ‘work’ you mean to include hours of pointless meetings, three hour lunches, getting harassed by management, getting monitored by the Diversity Gestapo, printing things that don’t need to be printed, filing things that don’t need to be filed, and etc. then I agree.
You left out forced diversity training by HR and more if you’re a federal contractor.
That’s insulting. My wife works 9 to 10 hours a day from home. She accomplishes more in one day what others can’t do in a week. She manages dozens of employees around the world and is responsible for millions in revenue.
Apologize!
“You left out forced diversity training by HR and more if you’re a federal contractor.”
Who is forcing the contractors to attend indoctrination classes? The Feds or the contracting firm?
You’re wrong.
That may be true in some cases. But in other cases many get more done at home.
You’re wrong.
You must be a pointy-haired boss.
Governor Hottie!
Yep. As they shrank cubicles and cubicle walls down, you had people sharing more illness and noise (distraction) keeps getting worse, with no high cube walls you’re constantly seeing movement (distractions) that isn’t useful, which takes away focus and makes it harder to concentrate.
These people seem to think like the current workplace is some kind of quiet calm library type of place with the best attributes for getting work done.
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