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I’m considering leaving my company, but not for the reason you’d expect. We’ve fully embraced work from home, even though officially there is an expectation th

I’m considering leaving my company, but not for the reason you’d expect. We’ve fully embraced work from home, even though officially there is an expectation that people start coming back to office in the future. I’m more frustrated because with WFH, a team I’m primarily involved with right now has essentially checked out. The manager doesn’t want to manage, and work that should take hours or a couple days stretches for weeks at a time. There’s little accountability, and I feel like more senior leadership isn’t doing much about it because it hasn’t really hit the bottom line. WFH is great I think when you have motivated people. With WFH, it’s an “out of sight, out of mind” situation with people not even coasting so much as they’re checked out. To be clear, I’m not blaming WFH. I do think it’s not helping a deeper problem.

systemvoltage 5y ago
I have seen the same thing in our company. Work that used to take a fraction of a sprint now spans multiple sprints. The velocity has plummeted, management doesn't care as much and people regularly do 3 hour lunches with coworkers. No one seems to give a shit. Company is heading in the wrong direction and everyone is coasting on this Titanic. Chatter on Slack is in comatose. IT issues take days to get resolved. JIRA tickets are piling up ungroomed. Is it because of WFH or pandemic? Not sure but what I am sure is the stark difference between pre and post pandemic times in our company. I am going to stick around because my pay is the same, so why not?
muzani 5y ago
Some people are definitely not able to. There's a reason why co-working spaces were popular. Managers are just prone to this as well. I don't think most are purposely slacking off, though. From what I've seen, they feel very guilty, and the guilt often pushes them deeper into laziness.
brailsafe 5y ago
For me, if the work isn't really rewarding or I can't summon the motivation to do it, then where I do it doesn't matter, because quite frankly an authority figure's impression of me in person or not doesn't affect it. Maybe for others this does matter, and the only thing motivating them on an otherwise stupid project is fear. Perhaps the fact that the project in this case doesn't impact the bottom-line is indicative of it not being sufficiently rewarding work on it's own. In recent interviews, when asked about what I want in my next position, I say that I want to be able to see where my work is going. I don't want to just write code and contribute to an opaque profit machine, because it doesn't keep me going when the work itself gets boring.

systemvoltage 5y ago

I have seen the same thing in our company. Work that used to take a fraction of a sprint now spans multiple sprints. The velocity has plummeted, management doesn't care as much and people regularly do 3 hour lunches with coworkers. No one seems to give a shit. Company is heading in the wrong direction and everyone is coasting on this Titanic. Chatter on Slack is in comatose. IT issues take days to get resolved. JIRA tickets are piling up ungroomed. Is it because of WFH or pandemic? Not sure but what I am sure is the stark difference between pre and post pandemic times in our company. I am going to stick around because my pay is the same, so why not?

muzani 5y ago

Some people are definitely not able to. There's a reason why co-working spaces were popular. Managers are just prone to this as well. I don't think most are purposely slacking off, though. From what I've seen, they feel very guilty, and the guilt often pushes them deeper into laziness.

brailsafe 5y ago

For me, if the work isn't really rewarding or I can't summon the motivation to do it, then where I do it doesn't matter, because quite frankly an authority figure's impression of me in person or not doesn't affect it. Maybe for others this does matter, and the only thing motivating them on an otherwise stupid project is fear. Perhaps the fact that the project in this case doesn't impact the bottom-line is indicative of it not being sufficiently rewarding work on it's own. In recent interviews, when asked about what I want in my next position, I say that I want to be able to see where my work is going. I don't want to just write code and contribute to an opaque profit machine, because it doesn't keep me going when the work itself gets boring.