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Originally Posted by epitome
There are these great things called "reports" on what you've done if you work from home. So 2015. There's also this newfangled software out there called "Skype" that lets you see other people wherever they happen to be.
I've always been amazed at how much slacking goes on in corporate America. If they think moving warm bodies to where they can see them will change anything, it won't. They need to hire better people.
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Exactly.
If you think that making someone work from an office is inherently 'better' you are an idiot. Flat out idiot.
Sure, some people are lazy and bad employees. They will be lazy at home and lazy in the office.
Some people are great employees and be great at home and great in the office.
If you can't trust your staff, employ staff you can trust.
As Epitome said, with home workers you get them to account for their time, just like any agency would account for their time. I don't employ a design agency and simply mistrust them because they are not in my office.
Also, the number of interuptions, pointless chit chat, wasted time in overlong shitly run meetings etc is insane in most offices I've worked in.
When I worked in mainstream, I was working for a company that was trialling the idea of home workers. I was part of the trial. I could easily get what would take a day in the office done in half a day working at home because of the lack of interruptions.