I'm curious as to how working from home exposed these more so than in the office ? Or are you saying people who used other events in lockdown to excuse them from carrying out their work ?and exiting people who clearly took the mickey during lockdown. It really did expose some lazy people who were adding no benefit to the organisation or the culture so bye bye to them.
I'm curious as to how working from home exposed these more so than in the office ? Or are you saying people who used other events in lockdown to excuse them from carrying out their work ?
Part of the reason that I'm leaving my current job after a very successful decade and a half is because of the amount of electronic spying that they (the most recent company to take over) now do on employees. In fact their policies are such that the computers provided spend so much resources on this snooping that they're arguably useless for doing the actual job in hand, and some people end up using non company hardware just to get their job done and to avoid being spied on. The company has just had a hugely successful quarter and year in spite of (and perhaps because of?) most people globally working from home but are gung ho about getting people back to the office in spite of local guidance/ordinances against that here and in other jurisdictions. And of course this has resulted in the introduction of yet another bureaucratic policy that needs to be followed where somebody wants to WFH for some reason. The soul destroying bureaucracy is another reason for my decision to call it a day.Firstly, some good software can tell you if they are logged in or not. Secondly, we really moved from the standard 9-5 approach and more to an output approach and these people simply were not delivering anything. In hindsight, I can think of one or 2 who would be at meetings in the office, looking earnestly at their laptops and were probably managing their fantasy football team. Working from home actually gave people fewer places to hide and made it harder for them to "look busy"
I know in the case of my own employer (tech firm) ....
We're also doing a bit of a culling exercise and exiting people who clearly took the mickey during lockdown. It really did expose some lazy people who were adding no benefit to the organisation or the culture so bye bye to them.
Firstly, some good software can tell you if they are logged in or not. Secondly, we really moved from the standard 9-5 approach and more to an output approach and these people simply were not delivering anything. In hindsight, I can think of one or 2 who would be at meetings in the office, looking earnestly at their laptops and were probably managing their fantasy football team. Working from home actually gave people fewer places to hide and made it harder for them to "look busy"
I had a post that disappeared after I posted it on the "asked to work in office thread" , did you delete it instead of moving it, it was definitely posted though but now it's gone ?I split these posts off the 'Asked to come back to office' thread.
Well this will be true for some people, it might not be true for others. Lockdown is going to have affected some people fairly negatively, also working from home is not easy for a lot of people, especially if they don't do it the right way - keep a set schedule, have a dedicated office space etc. How you do it will affect whether you feel you're working from home, or living in your office.The people who weren't delivering during Covid, were the same people not delivering before Covid.
Alternatively, they got a lightbulb moment and saw that life may be better outside their office and just moved on to a job they had an interest in. Clearly they didn't like what they were doing.In hindsight, I can think of one or 2 who would be at meetings in the office, looking earnestly at their laptops and were probably managing their fantasy football team.
Just looked at that one, but it seemed to mainly reference Google wanting staff back in the country for tax purposes, so not related to either thread. Feel free to report here if you think it does speak to the future of office based work.I had a post that disappeared after I posted it on the "asked to work in office thread" , did you delete it instead of moving it, it was definitely posted though but now it's gone ?
It wants them back ion the country due to taxation issues related to working for an Irish legal entity from abroad. They can continue to work remotely. The multi-national I work for have enforced the same 'must be in-country' rules while at the same time shutting down office space and moving to a model where desk space will be < 50% of workforce.Well Google is a technology company and it wants most of its 8000 workforce back in Dublin by October 18, it delayed this until October because of the delta variant, initially it wanted them back earlier.
Your take sounds different to their public announcements on their new Hybrid working model:I think this is relevant as Google one of the biggest technology companies in the world sees the future of its workforce as being site based rather than home based.
true, but in some cases they were quite happy to take the pay cheque and had not made an effort to move on to anything else. And they haven't moved on, we're doing the moving for them.Alternatively, they got a lightbulb moment and saw that life may be better outside their office and just moved on to a job they had an interest in. Clearly they didn't like what they were doing.
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