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Comment on People who have been in meetings to determine back to in office policy. What was the discussion like?

I happened to be involved in such a meeting this morning.

The conversation around the general policy was mostly supportive. The main concern is that we do not have an official policy in place and various teams are setting their own rules, which is occaisionally resulting in collaboration issues.

The other main issue, unsurprisingly, regards what we can do to make sure that people are actually working when they are at home. For the most part, people are getting their work done, but there are always going to be people trying to take advantage and we discussed ways to track that without getting too “big brother” across the board.

Sounds like we are going to implement a 2 day wfh allowance coordinated within teams, based on their schedules so that we have at least half of each team in the office each day, with exceptions for people with extenuating circumstances.

We are not going to put any kind of tracking software on their machines, but we are going to monitor overall output.

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corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
2 day wfh allowance

So

staff has to locate nearby

new applicants must be nearby

everyone needs a car

the office doesn’t offset any of this

but 2 days you get to be home and productive. Woo!

Someone needs to be fired. Pick the guy who talks about ‘organic conversations’, as if water cooler chat and constant interruptions are the true medium for knowledge sharing, or the sexist git who forces Linda to shop for office clothing where Gavin skates with khaki and a polo, and raise the average EQ with a quick meeting.

This is why when I interview - I do it to keep that skill up - I tell them their starting wage will be based on a the rent of a 2bd flat within 10min walking of the location I’m ordered to work. Gross pay needs to be triple your rent, right ? But that spreadsheet - it includes on-call rates and a penalty for Ansible or outlook - is another topic.
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blargh513@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I never understand places that dont have some sort of work management methodology.

In technology, we often use agile. Its complicated, but one key part is that the individuals determine what needs to be done to get an overall effort completed, creates the individual tasks in an application, schedules them for completion and makes notes about status as they go.

Its a little micro, but it ends all questions of “is this person working”. Either theyre getting stuff done or they aren’t. We have regular sessions to check progress and reports are generated on an ongoing basis. If someone is dicking around it shows up real fast.

I can’t imagine that places still just raw-dog all the work. What is Joe doing. No clue. When is he going to finish? Dunno. How is the project going? Beats me. Are we staffed appropriately? Good question.

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timbuck2themoon@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I gotta be honest- sounds weird you weren’t already tracking output already.

Like was output before wfh just “theyre in the office today”?

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- KarlHungus42@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  We are. Just not with software that checks keystrokes, mouse movements, etc.
  
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