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A smart company would see this as a win. By getting more flexible work schedules and locations, people are allowing work to happen during what would have been
by rootusrootus 7y ago
A smart company would see this as a win. By getting more flexible work schedules and locations, people are allowing work to happen during what would have been off time, even during vacation. For a lot of jobs this probably works out to more work getting done than a forced 8-hours-in-the-seat plan.
- cgs 7y agoIt really has to be part of the company culture and a top-down process. If the higher-ups are on the forced 8-hours-in-the-seat plan, then why should the employees get more freedom than them? There's an unspoken "if I'm going to suffer, so are you!"
- dominotw 7y agoI've worked at way too many places where ppl just chill at home most of the time.
- echelon 7y agoWere these effective teams/companies? It doesn't sound like it. What went wrong? Could you see it working right?
- mreome 7y agoIn my experience these kind of people just chill in the office if they are forced to come in, but appear busy by proximity and association with their coworkers. When the most important metric is work-done and not butt-in-seat-hours, it can actually be easier for (effective) managers to filter out the ineffective employees.
- dole 7y agoBesides the obvious flexible time benefits, this shifts a lot of accountability and responsibility from upper management down to lower levels. It's also a nice perceived "gift" or "compensation" from up on high without having to pay out actual monetary raises or bonuses.