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The most frequent obstacle to telework I've seen in Government is basically "If I can't work from home, you can't either!" from managers. I can't help but thin

The most frequent obstacle to telework I've seen in Government is basically "If I can't work from home, you can't either!" from managers. I can't help but think that this case is more of the same. If the work isn't getting done or it is of poor quality - make that the point. Unfortunately, enforcing accountability for that sort of failure is non-existent in Government whether the workers are in their cubicles or in their pajamas. If the only verification of work you're doing is something that could handled with grep, you don't really get to complain.

rdtsc 12y ago
The most direct way managers see if employees are working is if they are sitting in a cubicle farm for X/hours day. This is not unlike in the programming world when you measure if someone is working if you see them typing on the keyboard. If they stop typing they are not working. This most of all betrays that dysfunction. What if these people were in the office and just pretended to work but instead played solitaire. Management wouldn't know any better perhaps.