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Does it matter if said top talent was just watching YT all day at home Their heyday was 2016-2019
by throwitaway222 2y ago
Does it matter if said top talent was just watching YT all day at home
Their heyday was 2016-2019
- talldayo 2y agoIn terms of opportunity cost, the only person losing in that scenario is the employer.
- paranoidrobot 2y agoUnless, as some have suggested, it's a deliberate tactic to cheaply reduce headcount. (No need for severance/redundancy payouts if people self-select to leave).
- talldayo 2y agoIf your only remaining employees are desperate sycophants, they're probably not the sort of top talent that actually knows what they're worth. Maybe I'm wrong though.
- paranoidrobot 2y agoThe freedom to just up and move jobs isn't equally available for everyone. Anyone who doesn't have a permanent right to work (eg on some kind of visa) can find it hard to switch jobs. If you live in a place where Healthcare is tied to your employer, then that can cause problems, too, if you/a family member have some kind of chronic/ongoing medical issues. If your salary package has some kind of deferred portion, then that can also make switching difficult.
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- wumbo 2y agoThat’s the job. There a lot of downtime as a programmer.
- readthenotes1 2y agoYou mean for sleep? Yeah, I suppose. But I never had a job programming where there wasn't something valuable to spend my time on
- AlotOfReading 2y agoI have frequent 5-15 min slots throughout the day between meetings and during builds. There's only so many valuable things I've found to do with those, and they're usually finished by 10am.
- al_borland 2y agoI find that stepping away from my desk for a little while is the fastest way for me to solve a problem I’m struggling with. Kind of like how Dr House always solves his cases while doing other random stuff.
- blitzar 2y agoThe orders were to rest and vest.
- MattGaiser 2y agoI’m kind of curious why people are under the impression that people don’t do this in the office too. I’ve known people to do full time online masters degrees during office hours. I’ve played a heck of a lot of video games in office. Certainly read a lot of books at the office. Offices are not some magical “go find work” hypnotic environments.
- isoprophlex 2y agoI can do nothing from anywhere: Hundreds of hours of KSP, hundreds of hours of factorio. The former in an office, the latter from home. If anything, in an office there's always an excuse not to work. And if you accidentally enter the zone and get something done, soon you are interrupted by inanities.
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- arcticbull 2y agoI almost always have video playing in the background while I work, it helps me focus.
- threeseed 2y agoThat's just a fictional straw-man you've invented. There is no evidence that remote workers are all just sitting around doing nothing. And if they were then the problem is clearly with their managers who are unable to provide clear goals and monitor their status.