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Very very few people do this. If people are unproductive, they'll be just as unproductive in the office as they would be at home.
by notfromhere 7y ago
Very very few people do this. If people are unproductive, they'll be just as unproductive in the office as they would be at home.
- anovikov 7y agoNo they are very productive. Just work for several people at once and eventually turn from 1 super productive person into 3-4 barely acceptable ones. They also gain job security this way. And get paid way more.
- yowlingcat 7y agoKind of curious here -- do you mean they're making valley level salaries doing remote work and basically "available" to all four companies at the same time and just juggle tasks as they come in? What happens if they double book a meeting? What do they do at standup?
- anovikov 7y agoNot double booking meetings. Minimize communication. Try being as obscure as possible. And yes, ofc individual salaries are not Valley level. It's more like 3-4x$4000 a month. In a poor place where average salary is $500 and average coder salary about $2500 maybe. And where girls pay a lot of money for courses "how to get a relationship with a coder" (no joking!)
- yowlingcat 7y agoSorry, I mean what happens if there two mandatory meetings (one from each company) that the employee has no control over?
- papln 7y agoA-choo! "I choo"se to attend one, and sick out of the other.
- buboard 7y ago> No they are very productive. Then what's the problem? There are tons of "barely acceptable" people in offices everywhere. As long as they are not bad enough to be fired, the company benefits from them.
- zozbot234 7y agoFiguring out which employees are bad enough that they should be let go is quite costly, as is the resulting churn. You'd rather not hire those people in the first place, but once you've hired them you may be stuck with them for quite a while. So it can be a legitimate concern.
- buboard 7y agoone of the virtues of remote work is that workers can switch work instantly - if the law allows it , of course
- SketchySeaBeast 7y agoSo they are either incredibly productive and meeting the expectations of employer, or they aren't and they will be let go? If you're superhuman and can do that much work and don't have any legal obligations against it, that doesn't seem like an issue. Though these people are clearly very special, or their employer doesn't expect much, but if the employer is happy, I guess that's on them.