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The concept that you would rather promote a mediocre employee who works in the office over a star who decides to work at home is just absurd, and horrible for b
by danjl 2y ago
The concept that you would rather promote a mediocre employee who works in the office over a star who decides to work at home is just absurd, and horrible for business. I cannot imagine it actually being implemented.
- Muromec 2y agoIt's consistent with both theories about rto -- one that remote work harms productivity (and someone working remotely cant be more productive than their office peers) and the other postulating its just a power move
- timothevs 2y agoSadly, I was at the receiving end of this. FWIW I don’t work at a tech company, but rather at the IT department of a University in Florida.
- jimt1234 2y agoThis is basically how the federal government works. Employee-A is a "rock star", she is extremely productive, does great work, inspires others to do great work - the rest of the team basically depends on her, but she has to drive her kids to school in the morning and is sometimes 5 or 10 minutes late to the office. Employee-B is basically useless, does as little as possible, helps no one, but is always on time to the office. Now, take a guess who's gonna be promoted. ... I used to do civilian contracting; I saw this situation many times. Totally demoralizing.
- imoreno 2y agoPerhaps they believe their own management abilities are strong enough that mediocre enhanced by close management is better than good but out of management's reach. There's a lot of assumption I don't agree with in that, but I would assume their logic is something like that.