Wouldn't surprise me. People should only be required to work from home if their 'workplace' is deemed suitable. Laptop on the kitchen table won't usually be suitable.
Sorry for interrupting, but I was just watching an old rerun of blackadder and found this particularly funny. King Charles the first had so many warts on his face that until he sneezed they couldn't find which one was his nose...
People skiving whilst wfh is just a symptom of bad management. If you manage people by their outputs, it doesn’t matter where they work. All the wfh rubbish being peddled is a non issue. Focus on the real causes for the country’s ills.
What are all these jobs that can be done from home? I can easily name 100 jobs that can't be done at home from abattoir worker to zoo keeper. All you ever hear on the news is wfh, what about all the people with real jobs doing and making things.
WFH is a marmite love/hate thing. Def has benefits but def has people taking the piss. I know of how some tell me they exploit it and then for those with kids at home it’s an advantage to still work when they are I’ll or on school hols. Other side are the TWATS. Is work Tues,Wed and Thurs thus extending their weekend.
And whilst we all argue through the pros and cons of wfh, big business shareholders are making billions mismanaging public infrastructure, giving themselves inflation busting bonuses, whist doing nothing, probably sat at home…
And like most things these days, it's complicated. Plenty who winge and moan about it will have saving funds and pensions that are investing in in such companies so on one hand hope they make profits and pay dividends. As allways though the big players will make the money, small investors just when they get ahead along comes a bump in the road and all the gains are gone, only to be told that they need to stay in for the long haul to make money.
How do they manage them in the office then? Outcomes are more important than outputs, but that aside if it’s a job that can be done from home, if you don’t know how to manage the staff doing that then you’re not a good manager.
The same people would have been taking the piss on the office anyway. WFH isn’t the issue of people are doing so, it’s down to poor management.
Don’t you think in certain areas in large organisations I’m thinking HR they keep the staff so the manager keeps his job as he manages more people? Rather than looking at what the ****s, I don’t like HR, are actually doing?
Rover only does the one, the ghost train. Friday was always POETS day, piss off early tomorrow's Saturday. The views expressed in my posts are not necessarily mine.
In an office someone would know if they were absent and off down the golf course. Somewhat harder to manage when they are WFH. Freelancers and similar will be working just as hard and long from home as their livelihood depends on what they produce. Same can’t be said of all jobs. Sorry Den, can’t serve you a pint the delivery man and all the bar staff decided today was a WFH one…
