Posted on 01/19/2024 11:30:57 AM PST by ShadowAce
You are wrong. I work much harder at home than I ever did in an office. Maybe you are projecting.
I work more hours simply because I no longer have to spend 2+ hours commuting anymore.
I roll out of bed and get right to work.
100% agree unless you’re taking inbound calls on the clock with measurables.
I trained many new employees.
On those occasions I would spend one week in an office with them—theirs or mine—a very intense week with long days.
The rest of the coaching was done remotely until I was comfortable they had mastered their work.
In some cases it took a few months, in others it took up to a year.
There was no need for ongoing face to face meeting.
It was very easy to measure their output and to answer any questions they had.
When you’re a federal contractor the Feds set the rules!
It’s been like that for like forever. What’s new is those rules are stomping their way into the commercial workplace through the HR corporate officers.
Coincides with a downturn in IT hiring. Smart move.
They're not making this decision from a position of strength. They likely found out that some of their remote workers were outsourcing their work to others.
I regularly work with an IBM support team. The good individuals don't stay long. The ones that stick around are mediocre to clueless. They have some systems training but zero grasp of what the client needs and how to stave off inevitable issues. They're very reactionary instead of proactive.
“They likely found out that some of their remote workers were outsourcing their work to others.”
Good catch.
That makes sense.
The workers were too productive—so productive they could hold down two jobs at once and get both done well (by subcontracting)....
Our team has daily meetings with a director during certain project cycles. On the days he's in the office, it's an absolute waste of time. No one can hear him because a nearby loudmouth drowns out his phone when she's talking. She's so loud it's almost as though it's a comedy skit.
There is no back-to-the-office for people who were never in it. Since the beginning of the lockdowns, we've hired people across multiple states. The remote workers are much better than the locals. It's not even close.
We've had a few people get hired and then move on a year or two later without them ever having met some of the people they worked with daily. They got poached by other companies and ironically one major strength their new boss sought them out for was how well they work remotely due to our efforts to lay out all the tools and processes to make it happen.
Remote work wasn't new to us but the lockdowns forced upper management to get on board. Our IT teams had remote workers 20 years ago and some of our non-IT teams started remote work 10 years ago.
I have MS Teams meetings to share screens with dozens of people during the week and it's far more efficient than trying to set up meetings in person.
No I will not! That’s what my experiences with telecommuting workers tells me.
That’s your problem a hole
Incorrect. It depends entirely on the individual and the team they are attached to. I worked remotely for many years of my professional life, including for several companies like IBM. On the two occasions when I did go back inside for a period of months, my employers literally exclaimed over how productive I was compared to the rest of the staff.
Then again, I am a woman. We are the ones who had to work twice as hard to receive half as much credit.
But the article is about the Consulting practice.
Certainly untrue of all supervisors. Just the deadwood supervisors who lack vision and great communication skills. And certainly untrue of all remote workers. Why would creativity suffer when a worker can think and work without constant interruptions or duplicative meetings with the less-productive staff who require hand-holding or flank-covering?
No. Yours childishly upset like a triggered Democrat over another’s opinion. And I didn’t even use a curse to answer you.
About 13 years ago, I had been feeling good about having made it through my career without ever having to use Notes, when what happens? I end up in a consulting gig for a year or so where the organization uses Notes. And believe me, it was well past its prime then. Almost no one was using it at that point. C’est la vie!
I honest to God had a little utility on my desktop called KillNotes. When Notes would crash, I couldn’t restart Notes without rebooting my laptop. KillNotes would clean up all the leftover processes so I could restart Notes after a Notes crash, and not have to reboot. Just damn!
It wasn’t an opinion, it was a blanket indictment.
Of you had insulted my wife to my face I’d have decked you.
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