How Do You Know You Should Fire Her?

How Do You Know You Should Fire Her?

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[ehntals]

Work from home means you get evaluated on your output, not your time in the chair. This is a BS take from crappy management.

[jamesrgg]

I work from home, I either work 8 hours or I work till all current tasks are done. Exactly the same as I would at an office. Hard workers work hard in either environment and people who slack off slack off in either enviorment.

[michaeldaugherty]

My daughter works from home. She appreciates not having to get up early to drive in traffic to sit in front of another computer. she has mandatory overtime sometimes she’ll start at six in the morning. she hast to go to the office on Wednesdays and doesn’t start till nine. She works harder from home and is more comfortable in the process. Don’t be a hater.

[adeyosola]

A lot of people that work from the office don't put in 40 hours at work either: they are just there for forty hours a week.
However there are some jobs that are very task oriented, quantifiable and can be monitored that can be done from home.

[Hannibal-txis]

If the only way for you to know whether your employees are doing anything is to literally watch them 24/7, then something is wrong with your management style.

[MorganScott]

In my experience of people go into the office to produce less in more hours. Are you paying them for their time or their work product?

I'm a senior manager with a company that has been full time remote since its founding in 2007. Its grown to over 600 employees and over a quarter billion in annual gross revenue and i love it. My colleagues and employees are some of the happiest I've ever worked with.

Are you upset to pay for an empty office? I can understand that, but is the better fix to piss off your people, damage their work life balance, and cause them to incur additional costs or get rid of the office and cut an expense from the books?

As legendary leader Dick Winters told Buck Compton before the invasion of Normandy "Never put yourself in a position to take from these men."

[timfrederick]

WFH First contact is 7am last typically 5:30pm . Last night was 10:30pm
Full commission though not hourly

[bzzr]

I've seen lots of people in my day get fired for not doing their work while working from an office. As usual, it's about the character of the person and not where they work.

[kevinloughery]

It’s on the manager to set KPIs. If they’re met in 40 hours or 40 minutes is irrelevant.

[seanjo]

The fallacy here is that people working in office are actually working 40 hours a week. But just because you're in the building with the company name on it doesn't mean you're working 40 hours. The 40-hour work week was designed with factories with assembly lines in mind. An antiquated idea from an industrial revolution that happened 120 years

[dimitridoes]

Pretty negative view on working from home ...

[Upstatetechsupport]

This is a massive misconception. If you are going to have remote workers, you need to put systems in place to manage them properly. The problem isn't remote workers, it's adjusting processes to manage it properly. As the caller started "I don't know that she's putting in the work" that on him for not measuring the metrics properly. You should never guess about employee productivity, or go on your "feeling" you should be using data to know what's happening.

[AnnaBlooms]

I wonder if there are reliable statistics on this…

[cheetahtv]

Untrue- there is data that shows that regular remote workers (not periodic ones who flex their schedule for life events) are generally more productive. There is data going back 20 years.

[lowermichigan]

My team put in more than 40 hours work from home. They earned my trust to work from home. Not everyone earns that trust. It isn't as rare among high performers

[wjbarricklow]

My boss is in San Francisco, my coworkers are spread across the country. My work is all over the west coast, and I live on the east coast. What exactly would be the advantage of having me drive an hour or two to an office and get on conference calls to run work?

[shellywatson]

I work from home and work 40+. It's about discipline and being a quality, honest employee.

[kainpope]

This is another place where I tend to disagree with Dave My wife works from home for 2 years and there were days where she was on task with no brakes for up to 12 hours on the computer and making phone calls / emailing. Working from home when you would normally work in an office setting is fine because you do the same amount of work either way The only difference is you don't have to pretend to be working when there's nothing to do. And if you don't have enough work to do to keep yourself busy for the whole day either you're really good at your job or it's your company's fault for pretending that a part-time job is a full-time job and expecting you to find things to do to fill an extra 16 hours of the week when you could just get paid to do what they need you to do and be done even if it only takes you 16 to 20 hours

[jethroise]

The reason management and corporations hate working from home is because you actually have a life outside work which is the opposite of what they want

[DemonTime]

Sounds like someone is just jealous because he didn’t says the work isn’t getting done he feels like she gets done with her work and gets to chill at home and he doesn’t and it’s not fair so now if I can’t you can’t that’s what I’m hearing sounds like he’s the one who needs to be gone because you give him the same offer I bet you he takes it that’s what I’d do set the trap for the weasel because there’s no room for that behavior if she wasn’t doing her work we can talk but if you are trying to make up bs because you’re jealous you are abusing your “power”