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Our team is split over two locations; one is the home office, the other is a smaller company we merged with. That part of the team doesn't have any on-site mana
by greedo 9y ago
Our team is split over two locations; one is the home office, the other is a smaller company we merged with. That part of the team doesn't have any on-site management, so they are in effect remote users. They seem to thrive well without the extra supervision, but they suffer from a lack of visibility from their immediate reporting chain.
One issue with remote work is that it can be pulled back. Our company used to have a very friendly policy towards it, and people got used to working remote for a few days a week. Then there was a change in mid-level mgmt, and boom, no more remote work. That can be hard to adjust to; no one likes to have a "benefit" taken away. Our company is now one that tends to focus on the "optics" of things instead of how they really are, so working outside the office is detrimental to both career and job-security.
- dudul 9y agoOut of curiosity, what reason was given for this policy change? Did you have any full time remote workers who was forced to relocate or leave?
- maxxxxx 9y agoI have seen this at another company and I believe it was due to the fact that management wasn't very tech savvy. So when projects started to slip the only thing they could do was to call a lot of status meetings and make sure people are at the office working visibly. It's hard to judge if a remote worker works on a problem for two weeks or just does nothing.
- greedo 9y agoExactly. Our company has installed the equivalent of TPS reports so that middle mgmt can feel good about themselves. They stack rank the teams, and ticket count and closure is a "vital" metric. If you do something important that isn't easily measurable (in an automatic fashion), you better be putting in a lot of face time. Oh, and we have 4 trouble/bug/task tracking systems in place...
- toomuchtodo 9y agoIts never been a better time to job hunt.
- greedo 9y agoThere was no reason given. Just the whims of mgmt. We didn't have any full-time remote workers that were affected. This only affected people at the home office who wanted a day or two to WFH.