With so many people still working from home because of COVID-19, an awful lot of managers are freaking out.
Some managers just don’t believe that “working from home” means doing real work. They apparently assume that the second people aren’t being watched, they’ll jettison their work ethic and spend entire workdays binge-watching Netflix, even if they were previously trustworthy, responsible employees. These are the managers who, before the pandemic, would flat-out deny requests to work from home or only begrudgingly approve them for the occasional “good reason,” like waiting at home for the cable guy.
When vast quantities of people were forced to start working from home in March, these managers didn’t have a magical change of heart. Instead, many of them continued to believe that employees working from home aren’t really working or will only work if they’re carefully monitored—often in intrusive and insulting ways.
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