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Executives are indeed stupid people > Workers with full schedule flexibility report 29% higher productivity and 53% greater ability to focus than workers with
by terminatornet 4y ago
Executives are indeed stupid people
> Workers with full schedule flexibility report 29% higher productivity and 53% greater ability to focus than workers with no ability to shift their schedule, according to a just-announced report from Future Forum. But do bosses trust employees to be productive when working out of the office?
> Microsoft released a new study, where it found that 85% of leaders say that the “shift to hybrid work has made it challenging to have confidence that employees are being productive.” More concretely, 49% of managers of hybrid workers “struggle to trust their employees to do their best work.” This lack of trust in worker productivity has led to what Microsoft researchers termed productivity paranoia: “where leaders fear that lost productivity is due to employees not working, even though hours worked, number of meetings, and other activity metrics have increased.”
So workers are more productive with remote flexibility, working more hours and managers and execs still want more.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/glebtsipursky/2022/11/03/workers-are-less-productive-working-remotely-at-least-thats-what-their-bosses-think/?sh=65221ea1286a https://www.forbes.com/sites/glebtsipursky/2022/11/03/worker...
- falcor84 4y agoThere is a bit of a leap of faith between "Workers with full schedule flexibility report 29% higher productivity" to "workers are more productive". Everything else being equal, I would trust the managers more than the employees' self-assessment.
- terminatornet 4y ago> Microsoft released a new study, where it found that 85% of leaders say that the “shift to hybrid work has made it challenging to have confidence that employees are being productive.” More concretely, 49% of managers of hybrid workers “struggle to trust their employees to do their best work.” nothing about this figure from managers says employees are more or less productive, just that managers having a feeling workers are less productive, they can't trust them etc. sounds like the managers are just projecting their feelings onto employees.
- kyleee 4y agoYep, they are uncomfortable because they can’t fall back to idiotic / superficial metrics ie. “butts in seats” and it will require more work/introspection etc. to find actual better metrics and use them