To be fair, most higher ups who keep going on about people not working when they’re home, are lying. Some of them believe it, but that’s mostly projection.
They like use it as an excuse, because they know real reasons would make them sound like idiots. It’s things like not wanting to “waste” money on their 10year rental of office space that no one uses. Can’t keep paying some office managers and people in HR if there’s no one in the office. And so on and so forth. They literally want to expenditure at the cost of company revenue.
TL;DR: Modern MBA education needs to be thrown out and rebuilt from scratch
They would notice pretty quick if 30% of employees suddenly did 50% less work.
They should realize that a bunch of the work doesn’t matter, can and should be skipped, and people do just that when they work from home. Also "just a quick question"s and "do you have a sec"s interrupt and reset real efforts in high level decision making and accuracy, every time.
If an employee isn’t doing any work at home and you don’t notice, you are incredibly shit. Either they did nothing before and you should have noticed then, or you should notice that now they are doing nothing.
Lots of companies own the offices their employees work in. Low demand for office space has a material impact on the balance sheet.
Sucks for them, then. Not the employees problem.
GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Which I’ve seen as a slightly hidden transfer of expense to the employee.
Company sees their empty office building as a waste of money but your home/apartment being empty for 8+ hours 5 days a week is okay because it doesn’t affect their bottom line.
NobodyElse@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Also your commute-related expenses, which are often a fairly substantial sum, and your uncompensated commute time.