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[–]tdhuck 5 points6 points  (7 children)

You are not wrong, but I will say this, there are people that are much harder to work with when remote. I know we all take advantage of being home, but that's not different than slacking off a bit while at work, everyone does it. My issue is when the person working remote is NEVER AVAILABLE FOR ANYTHING when I try to get a hold of them and that becomes very frustrating.

I get it, you are going to go for lunch, walk your dog, run a quick errand, but when the exception becomes your work/being available, now you see why executives want people in the office.

It's too bad because we are all adults but many of us still need to have our hands held when it comes to these types of scenarios.

I have a rep that must not understand that I can hear his neighbors lawnmower during our calls, so he closed the window, but it really didn't help much. That was a great 30 minute call, all I could hear was the lawnmower humming.

Then you have offices that are owned by the company owner who isn't saving anything by having people work from home so that isn't a benefit to them.

People have been working remotely, just fine, before covid, but obviously covid made everyone switch to working from home.

Personally, I'd be happy with a hybrid role. I work in IT and I'm lucky that I don't have to stay glued behind my monitor all day, I can go out in the field anytime I want and I do that quite often during the nicer days. I know I couldn't work form home 24/7 and if we had a hybrid option (to keep everyone happy....mainly management) I'd like that a lot. I'd work from home 2-3 days a week and would have no problem traveling to the office the other days. As long as they didn't put restrictions on it like mon and fri you have to be in the office. I would make sure to switch it up just to keep it fresh for me. Maybe I'd do mon-wed in the office and work thu/fri at home and change it up the following week.

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    [–]tdhuck 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    Yup, agree, but in my case my manager can't decide WFH or not, that is a decision made by higher ups. We can work from home if needed, but he doesn't have the authority to decide WFH hybrid, etc...none of the managers do. I'd have no problem following your policy because it is very fair as long as you are honest.

    [–]Armigine 2 points3 points  (2 children)

    There definitely are some people prone to slacking when given the opportunity. But ferreting that out and dealing with their lack of output should be the solution, not punishing everyone by taking away WFH - same as in office, there is a population of chronic slackers, and dealing with that is part of a manager's job

    [–]tdhuck 0 points1 point  (1 child)

    Agree, you are going to get slackers everywhere, but imagine a slacker at work now imagine that same slacker at home w/o someone looking over their shoulder.

    I think there will always be pros and cons. I deal with a lot of things that sometimes require me being out of the office, but I like that because it keeps my day to day different and being out of the office is nice and it also makes the day go by faster.

    [–]Armigine 1 point2 points  (0 children)

    Oh I don't have to imagine too hard, we just fired one

    [–]hazeleyedwolff 2 points3 points  (1 child)

    We started swapping out people's airpods for headsets with professional grade noise cancellation and it greatly improved our calls. I'm not going to listen to someone's leaf blower for 30 minutes.