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our lab just got dinged by an employee who was trying to hold got another full time job on the down low....something that would have been caught if the work was

• kelnos 3y ago
  Sure, that happens. But if you think that's actually a significant problem (significant enough to abandon all the benefits of allowing workers to work from home), you're gonna need more than an n=1 anecdote to support that take. And regardless, that sort of thing happens even when employees work in an office. People can certainly get a part time side gig and do that work from their main job's office. Maybe a little more likely to get caught, but it's far from impossible.
• Jcowell 3y ago
  Your problem isn’t that this employee got another job, it’s if their performance and work suffers for it. if they somehow are able to do both then your company is lucky they have an incredible employee and should be liking for means to retain them
  • ip26 3y ago
    You are technically correct, but I would posit “secretly holding two full time, demanding, salaried jobs” is an extremely strong predictor for failing to perform sufficiently at either. Given that, it’s a simple matter of weighing those odds against the costs involved in proving it. One common argument is if you can’t tell their performance is impacted, they must actually be performing adequately. Except, in a different context, we will happily explain how our own performance can’t be measured by number of lines changed or bugs fixed.