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.
managers who can’t evaluate employees based on results.
What percentage of time do you think people are actually accomplishing things in person?
There are tools for monitoring output. I assume you are old.
Notice what IBM is doing—ordering workers back to the office while closing offices!
Lol.
Morale is toast at this point.
Once your employees hate you the telework vs office debate is irrelevant.
WRT to my 40 year career of working almost exclusively in the field and at home, you’re wrong, period.
I'm curious why you would say that. Do you have firsthand knowledge of what "they" are all doing while working remotely?
Perhaps you are projecting your own lack of work ethic onto others?
Tele everything is crap.
It doesn’t work well for school, college, government offices, doctors...
It’s another fad that was amplified by Covid and taken far beyond its practical best application.
When I was in the office, sitting in my little half-cubicle, listening to my co-workers yell to their speakerphones in a meeting, interrupting everyone else, losing my concentration, etc--I was STILL working remotely.
My job consists of building, securing, and maintaining servers in a datacenter. Those datacenters were no on the same floor as I was. Most of them weren't even in the same building.
The only difference between then and now as far as my job goes, is I no longer have to commute in one of the world's worst traffic cities, and I'm saving some wear and tear on my vehicles.
Some jobs are telecommuting whether you're in the office or not.
“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.”
BS, period. Study after study showed a remarkable improvement to productivity.
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”.
“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.
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’re wrong.
That may be true in some cases. But in other cases many get more done at home.
You are wrong. I work much harder at home than I ever did in an office. Maybe you are projecting.
100% agree unless you’re taking inbound calls on the clock with measurables.
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.