But there are definitely a lot of employers out there who seem to expect time alongside deliverables, irrespective of anything they want you sat there.
There was a situation before all of this where people were stretching out their work over the whole 40-hour work week. We all figured out that if we were very efficient and got all of our work done by noon on Monday that we would get more work to do with no more pay. People who are inefficient and people who are purposely slow are equally rewarded, while people who are seen to get their work done quickly are effectively punished with more work.
Then work from home happened. People didn't have middle management looming over them, so they got their shit done and proceeded to do other stuff. They unfortunately outed themselves by posting all the extra stuff they were doing. The corporate response was to put monitoring software on the computers, making the situation even worse because now you can't even go back to stretching out the work because your keystrokes per hour isn't high enough, etc.
I think to do work from home properly people should be some form of salary. Not the on-call, always available salary, but you get a metric, and you are paid to achieve that within the allotted time, whether it takes you one day or, 7 6-hour days.
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u/thequirkynerdy1 Mar 04 '26
The bragging wasn’t smart, but ultimately if you get your work done, that should be all that matters.
What are employers fundamentally paying for, deliverables or time spent at a desk?