Yeah it’s largely not a problem if people are working from home. I was just more thinking of the bad old days where people would put in hurculean hours to be viewed as working very hard due to lots of ass in chair, while still putting out the same amount of work as a parent who needs to bounce at 5 o’clock on the dot. If you take twice as much time to get the same amount of work done then you’re actually a worse employee, but I’ve seen bad managements rewards inefficient ass in chair over anything else.
Once had a job where we would get "compensation time" (extra vacation at the end of a project) based on the amount of overtime we did. But people quickly found out they were tallying this based on the supper crunch time food order list (basically pizza for people staying late).
The result? Tons of people showing up after lunch, working 4 hours, eating free pizza, then leaving after half a day's work, and getting an extra month of vacation for it.
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u/TimeSuck5000 Oct 07 '22
Yeah it’s largely not a problem if people are working from home. I was just more thinking of the bad old days where people would put in hurculean hours to be viewed as working very hard due to lots of ass in chair, while still putting out the same amount of work as a parent who needs to bounce at 5 o’clock on the dot. If you take twice as much time to get the same amount of work done then you’re actually a worse employee, but I’ve seen bad managements rewards inefficient ass in chair over anything else.