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I don’t understand why a manager wants to waste their time monitoring this. Workers are measured by their outputs. You should be able to clearly identify a cont
by nemo44x 3y ago
I don’t understand why a manager wants to waste their time monitoring this. Workers are measured by their outputs. You should be able to clearly identify a contributors outputs. There’s many ways and popular tools to track this.
So long as you make your meetings during “regular business hours” and produce agreed upon outputs then who cares if the contributor is fishing half the day. Their ambitious peers will take on more work if they being underutilized and when it comes time to distribute merit increases and promotions it is obvious who earned it.
Manage outputs and distribution of labor and build your metrics around this instead of trying to determine if someone looks busy.
- Neil44 3y agoWhenever I'm asked to help look at a specific person it's because they suspect cause or are looking for cause to get rid of them. TBH I usually find it.
- nemo44x 3y agoWhat in particular are they doing? This seems different than watching day to day work. I understand that if the company is suspicious an employee is doing something that’s an fireable offense then they need tools to take action.
- jstarfish 3y agoI have to fight my own team to keep them from turning on "screenshot everything" tools for everyone we suspect might be doing something. The concept of probable cause as a requisite for more-invasive monitoring is foreign to most people.
- Neil44 3y agoRunning a side business with company resources, sending leads out to their friends or possible future employers instead of pursuing them, watching TV all day, sending mass company data / PII to their personal gmail, just straight up not doing any work... Porn hasn't come up that often surprisingly but spending time on other work inappropriate time sinks does. Etc Etc