Half of UK Bosses Dont Trust Employees to Work from Home
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- Half of UK bosses don’t trust their employees to work from home without online surveillance. While 42% of employees believe it is unethical for employers to monitor them.
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Micromanaging is a symptom of failed leadership, not lazy employees. Companies need to remember that they pay salaried employee for their productivity and not their hours worked.
Yes and no. I think the thing you're not taking into account is alot of managers are employees too. Perhaps instead of criticising managers for micromanaging, maybe ask as to why they have chosen this method of employment. It doesn't mean that micromanaging is a good way of managing staff but it can become a chosen method due to mistrust.
Plus if you look at all of these videos if people glamorising not working during their hours then you legitimise this. As much as you want bosses to hold other bosses accountable then why don't you do the same to other employees.
@@shubendranaidoo3943 Why does it matter how little you try if the work is getting done just the same?
Seems like these type of employers would rather have you exert 8 hours a day of energy for the same output as exerting 5 hours. It's anti efficiency and anti business
Our productivity has gone up since working from home. More work, life balance, less carbon footprints and lower paid staff have a bit more in their pocket, saving few hundred pounds on travel.
For some and generally for millennials because we know what it was like before the work from home option. I can't say the same for gen z
If my experienced car mechanic has devised a way to give my car a quality tune up in 45 minutes, while the rest of the industry needs hours to do it, why is it my business if he goofs off when he’s done with my car, and charges me the going rate?
If you have to monitor them, you have already failed as a leader. You should be able to judge your employees work based on output and not just time spent working if you have good systems to evaluate individual performance.
Not these days. Do you trust all that younget as a consumer? People can put on an act.
‼️IF THE WORK IS DONE THEN THERE IS NOTHING ELSE TO DISCUSS ‼️
Employers that do this are anti efficiency and anti business. It's like paying for a phone repair and being upset that it took 1 hour rather than 3 days. Insane
If you have the option to work from home, i think it's not unreasonable for employers to say work will be monitored . So long as it's stated up front. I think it's pretty fair
Pay them with real wages, don't use them as slaves... If my salary doesn't allow me a roof over my head, for whom do I work, for what do I waste my life, for the sake of reaching retirement old and full of disease?
As long as they get the expected amount of work done, why the f**k does it matter??
If the job is getting done the job is getting done. I actually have more reason to worry about my company directors (or specifically the ones that left recently) where the head was totally incompetent at their job so the board of directors and non-execs were also incompetent for hiring that guy in the first place.
Nothing to hide nothing to fear springs to mind
Why would you want to work for a company that doesnt trust you?? Measure me on my deliverables and output. Dont judge me if I have a errand or need a 10min break. TBH its only old people that really think in this micro-management style - They don't deserve to be a managers!
Crumbling effigy of a capitalistic society claims employee surveillance is the way forward. Quelle surprise.
I do shopping sometimes, or Google sometimes, my work isn't effected as my figures r still high. Yeah, I watch movies online sometimes but that's after office has closed.
no completely unacceptable
Long before Covid my managers worked from home when everyone else was in the office. Its easy to audit a work laptop or tablet so you know what an employee is doing
they use key-logging software when your IN the office as well.
Why shouldn't they be monitored. The rest of us are.
it is obvious that it's invasion of privacy
There is no privacy guarantee on a work device - the company owns it.
Most of my managers all work from home and the place is a joke how can you run a department you are not in its ridiculous
People need the social interaction of being with others. Problem is many don't realise it until...after time they become nervous of interacting with others and claim mental health issues.
If you dont trust an employee to work from home then they shouldn't be working for you...
Erm, you seem to be forgetting that this only came about because of covid...... People don't want to leave their house for work anymore..... This wasn't a problem until after covid....
Strange how they all claim to be more productive at home but yet are outraged about monitoring software to prove this point! 😂😂😂
Most employees have some sort of scam. Where I worked they'd make out their child was sick at nursery and they had to go and collect them. Always on a Friday and they were in fact doing their shopping
These people working from home want there cake and eat it i am not surprised employers would rather have them in the office if they don't want to be monitored at home tough
Corporate Britain is a microcosm of the UK Government. Corporate leadership is absolutely appalling but the directors just get to move on to the next gig and don't get held to account......just like the Government.........a person at the top embellishing their CV to land a senior Gov position in finance is apparently not a big deal but a worker on the lowest level goes to the toilet too many times and it's a disciplinary. When it financially suits large corporates then work from home is fine.....but right now I believe the push is coming from Government to get more people in the office so that people spend more on travel to the office, childcare, food purchased at the office or in the local area etc all because somebody who has produced a failed budget needs more sales tax and fuel tax to prop up their stupidity.
I don’t trust some bosses ! They can get rid of you at anytime when suits them
They pay the salary have the right
An employee has a duty to the employer. Too much emphasis on rights.
Every company logs what employees do on their laptop from teams/Google chat logs, emails, browser history ect. That why you should never log into any personal accounts on your work laptop unless you have to. But logging keystrokes and recording the screen to see if an employee is working is overkill clearly you can measure if someone is doing their work by how much work they do and the quality of their work. A good manager should have trust in their worker check in regularly on the work they have produced and judge of the employee is doing a good job. They don't need to know all the sensitive keystrokes and what they are looking at on the computer. What happens if you need to log into a personal account at work or you're buying something for the team using your Amazon account putting in your details and passwords. You're saying Managers should know your keystrokes so they should know your sensitive passwords and bank account details through keylog strokes and screen recordings? There are always going to be lazy workers but this is not the way to find out who those lazy workers are. It's easy to find those lazy workers by looking at the quantity and quality of work they produce. Trust goes both ways and a long way in productivity
Working from home us a unfair system as people who are not needed can do it while people who are essential can't
That says more about your profession than anything else, if I can do admin work from home and be 30-50% more productive due to the flexibility, then there shouldn't be a problem. If you are a frontline worker, perhaps within the NHS (who also have positions with hybrid/wfh components) or perhaps retail, the local constabulary, or fire service, then you aren't going to have that perk.
@michaelcox1221 no so it's a unfair system for essential front line staff where as people sat at home making spreadsheets all day are not really needed
@@bowjana8128 No, you need support staff lol. If you don't have support staff, then your basic business admin doesn't get done. NHS have support staff. Police have support staff. Fire service had support staff. Retail has support staff. We are quite a long way away from those roles being automated by AI, so as long as there is a need for business admin there is a need for administrative staff. Whether or not these employees are able to work from home or not should vary by business need, but the argument that productivity has been reduced by WFH is a flimsy one. Sickness reduced, dependent leave reduced, commute times reduced (leading to less staff lateness due to issues with public transport), a reduction in company energy bills, rentals, the need for more office space etc... It's a great model, and to say it isn't fair due to 'front line staff' being unable to WFH is a bit silly. Of course you can't WFH, that's your job - the front line.
@michaelcox1221 where as front line essential staff won't get sick pay as they can't work from home it's front line staff who are needed like I said not people sending emails and making spreadsheets if nurses or bin man etc didn't go in eveeyone would notice if 7 managers didn't turn up no one would notice 😉
What seems strange to me is that during the pandemic we were told that students at university were emotionally affected for staying at home and not delivered their lectures in person. Now we must work from home and its terrible to go and work from a work place. Please do pick your battles.
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This is fine by me. if its a work computer i assume they have keystroke loggers, monitoring software etc to ensure employees are working. and IMHO i dont do anything on a work computer and ensure it kept clean with only work software
It is not spying, it is monitoring. If you are being paid to do a job, there is nothing wrong with your employer ensuring that you are doing what you are being paid to do!
I don't agree with spying... But I don't agree with working from home either... It's a simple way to become lazy. Working from home is not the same as working in the workplace, full stop. Odd how nobody complains about cctv at their workplace....