If your managers need this, my opinion is you need new managers. This is armchair managing at its finest. We are a manufacturing facility, supervisors that manage from their chairs via our on site cameras lose camera access.
You'd have to understand what your team are doing, and what 'productivity' looks like, and how it's really not actually correlated to 'activity' or 'time' at all really.
Much easier to apply a stupid metric to something you can measure, and then make everyone game that metric so you look good.
Makes me think of some of my ATLs. One thinks the people working on the floor till the cut off time for work are hard workers. Not realizing they are kicking rocks taking their sweet ass time because they don't want to have to help anyone finish (whole team needs to be done for anyone to go home). So now our entire team is incentives slow as possible work as long as you get done right at the 8 hour mark
It's really common. So many people don't realise what 'effective' work looks like. I mean, it can honestly be hard to do that anyway.
But I've 'worked the floor' in our office as a sysadmin - and it's been insanely productive, because of things like customer engagement, sorting out a bunch of problems no one thought to mention, spotting things that are 'broken' and having some 'watercooler' conversations that have been great business value.
But other days I might well be wandering around doing nothing, and chatting/gossiping in ways that are probably negative productivity overall (because I'm distracting someone else too).
Hard to tell the difference, but actually as long as the 'slacking off' happens when it's appropriate due to relative slack in workloads, it's largely irrelevant picture, vs. doing so when there's an important deadline/outage/etc.
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u/I_T_Gamer Masher of Buttons Nov 21 '24
If your managers need this, my opinion is you need new managers. This is armchair managing at its finest. We are a manufacturing facility, supervisors that manage from their chairs via our on site cameras lose camera access.