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Work-from-home boom leads to more surveillance

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Post by subhobroto »

birdyrooster wrote: post #305
birdyrooster wrote: post #304

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't know what I even meant by this. Management doesn't work for me except for when those goals coincidentally align with my own. Piss off.

How cute... telling yourself off.

> How cute... telling yourself off.

Reality is what remains after all beliefs have been stripped away.

I did not respond to your comment as the grandparent made no sense - neither management, nor boss nor god in the sky works for you.

Only you work for you and they work for them.

Naivety is believing it works any other way.

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Post by Breza »

blaser-waffle wrote: post #296
sumanthvepa wrote: post #15

I own a small business, and all of us, my employees and me work from home. We've been doing this from well before the COVID-19 epidemic. My team is mostly programmers with a one marketing person. This sort of intrusive monitoring is utter garbage. My team would quit if I used it and in any case, I don't want to know what they are upto by the minute. I don't even encourage realtime slack unless we've mutually agreed t…

Nothing about your business sounds like it reflects the rest of the white-collar working world.

Most of my direct reports work from home full time, just like most people in our company. We look at the output from our teams and we frankly don't care if people are checking Facebook on their phones during business hours. Focusing on the work that's getting done results in everybody being happier than micromanaging how people spend their time.
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