re: Weather: work from home request?

If the same employees don’t stay late from time to time to get shite done, then I wouldn’t give them any slack either. It’s all about the individual employee and how productive they are.

I have 55 stateside employees and upwards of 100 overseas vendor employees that report up the line to me. Zero in office workers and it's been that way for years before Covid. If you can't manage these people successfully in a WFH environment you can't manage them in house either. It's not about the location its about the leadership you provide and the work culture you create. My salaried remote managers give untold time before and after hours when needed due to not having to commute. I'm also quick to approve the time off they want to keep the balance. Stop using WFH as an excuse for poor management of poor employees that you feel the need to manipulate in order to get productivity from them.

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I have 55 stateside employees and upwards of 100 overseas vendor employees that report up the line to me. Zero in office workers and it's been that way for years before Covid. If you can't manage these people successfully in a WFH environment you can't manage them in house either. It's not about the location its about the leadership you provide and the work culture you create. My salaried remote managers give untold time before and after hours when needed due to not having to commute. I'm also quick to approve the time off they want to keep the balance. Stop using WFH as an excuse for poor management of poor employees that you feel the need to manipulate in order to get productivity from them.

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Well said. OP should give up the boss position and take a demotion. That is what would be best for the company since OP admits that they don't know how to properly manage their employees.

I walked to school uphill both ways and it rained every day

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I have 55 stateside employees and upwards of 100 overseas vendor employees that report up the line to me. Zero in office workers and it's been that way for years before Covid. If you can't manage these people successfully in a WFH environment you can't manage them in house either.

It's not about the location its about the leadership you provide and the work culture you create. My salaried remote managers give untold time before and after hours when needed due to not having to commute. I'm also quick to approve the time off they want to keep the balance.

Stop using WFH as an excuse for poor management of poor employees that you feel the need to manipulate in order to get productivity from them.

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When the weather is bad, I encourage my team to work from home. Why add unnecessary risk/stress?

If they can work from home when the weather is bad then why not primarily be WFH?

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Remote working isn't the problem.

Lazy employees who take advantage of remote work situations to screw off and incompetent employers who don't have the backbone to discipline lazy employees and instead punishing that whole company workforce are the problem.

There are a multitude of resources and programs available to monitor and track remote production if one chooses to utilize them.

Trust me, your more responsible and dedicated employees would greatly respect and appreciate your acknowledging their hard work and dedication rather than your refuel to deal with problem employees and lumping everyone into the same category.

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In 20 years most people will be working remotely. Progressive companies looking for a competitive advantage will be managed by folks in their 20s today who do not need to keep tabs on their employees every second. They will measure job performance on production, not the number of hours spent eating birthday cake a week.

The one thing that ALL remote work advocates need to keep in mind though is this...if your job can be done from Georgia and your "office" or employer is in California there are very few circumstances where your job could not be done from India, for example. Some jobs requiring citizenship for security purposes would be an exception but outside of that if you can do your job more than a typical commute from the office there is no difference in it being done half way around the globe.

If I weren't so lazy I'd like to go through all the WFHs in this thread post history to see how many posts were made during working hours. My suspicion is that most of you are lazy fricks perusing TD instead doing your jobs a lot of the time.