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Caring about the specific hours an employee is working rather than the quality of their output is something I hope dies along with mandatory physical presence in an office.
Quality of work is something people can argue about until they're blue in the face, but hours put are objective.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Caring about the specific hours an employee is working rather than the quality of their output is something I hope dies along with mandatory physical presence in an office.
Quality of work is something people can argue about until they're blue in the face, but hours put are objective.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Caring about the specific hours an employee is working rather than the quality of their output is something I hope dies along with mandatory physical presence in an office.
Quality of work is something people can argue about until they're blue in the face, but hours put are objective.
I've known people who became masters at imitating work 8 hours a day.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Caring about the specific hours an employee is working rather than the quality of their output is something I hope dies along with mandatory physical presence in an office.
Quality of work is something people can argue about until they're blue in the face, but hours put are objective.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Caring about the specific hours an employee is working rather than the quality of their output is something I hope dies along with mandatory physical presence in an office.
Quality of work is something people can argue about until they're blue in the face, but hours put are objective.
The problem is multi-faceted. While this is entirely anecdotal I have observed a LOT of time theft by employees. And been asked more than ever to investigate employee behavior (even when I normally try and advise against the approach) Some more egregious than others. While most probably aren’t going to awol for a day at a time I know a LOT of people that now spend working hours doing leisure things. Maybe that’s a su…
> But I still see the need for brick and mortar work for certain....job types Maybe you wanted to say "certain people"? Working from home is definitely more difficult for some people's work style than others, plus a ton of other factors like how well one's home is suited to working in, how much skill a person has working in that environment, etc. Time theft is a bummer, especially on the team-level where you just wan…
I've dealt with this in execs and team leaders before - why do you care about time theft? If it's about the productivity loss, that should be measurable in its own right.
Most of the time, I find that people just want to be able to see the team working for them and don't like the idea of paying people 'not to work' despite the fact that what they're really paying for are outputs.
I haven’t read all 63 pages, but I’m surprised that the abstract doesn’t mention: All the $$$ that businesses get to save by eliminating or reducing office real estate, including $$$ saved by pushing some of those costs onto employees.
Hopefully we can get some legislation to correct for this. It seems like the sort of thing the labor market should balance out eventually, but... the labor market is pretty irrational all over the place, so I wouldn't trust it.
I haven’t read all 63 pages, but I’m surprised that the abstract doesn’t mention: All the $$$ that businesses get to save by eliminating or reducing office real estate, including $$$ saved by pushing some of those costs onto employees.
"All the $$$ that businesses get to save" This. And not just on office space - all the perks: snacks, on-site gym/child care/etc. Not to mention janitorial/security staff, utilities. I think now companies have tried WFH/Remote, they'll remain open to it in the future.
The cost of those things is a drop in the ocean compared to salaries anyway.
I really hope it doesn’t. I miss the office. Workplace environments prevent myself from socially isolating beyond weekends at best — I know I’m not alone in that.
Conference room meetings felt less organized than web conferencing.
Saving 80min in daily commute on top of that gives me over 7 free hours per week, over 250h per year, enough to get an extra education.
30% or more of my colleagues commute over 2.5h per day, 12.5h per week, 48+h/month.
To send emails and make phone calls from an office.
Let that sink in.
No way.
Maybe also because I don’t come from a culture where work expands to take 100% of someone’s life. Work is work. Socializing is outside of that.
The problem is multi-faceted. While this is entirely anecdotal I have observed a LOT of time theft by employees. And been asked more than ever to investigate employee behavior (even when I normally try and advise against the approach) Some more egregious than others. While most probably aren’t going to awol for a day at a time I know a LOT of people that now spend working hours doing leisure things. Maybe that’s a su…