lol. Good luck doing this for 2 million federal employees. Then dealing with all the complaints and EEO grievances etc. Good luck Elon! |
Here is a govt work at home. Log on respond some emails, open word doc put coffee mug on key board so it types away nonsense, go get dressed come back push some more buttons. |
My old job the work apps on our phone had GPS tracking. Pretty easy to see who is in office, what time they arrive and leave. You dont even have to open app. Ourl laptops have same thing. Log on from home in workhours it sees your GPS. Now this is not tracking productivity in any way but very easy to track you location |
Not sure about government, but I know some people in the private sector who definitely do this. Lots of private sector folks are "working" two jobs. That's why there has been such an uproar about RTO at Amazon -- message boards are filled with Amazon employees fretting about how they're no longer going to be able to collect two paychecks. |
SpaceX and NASA aren’t competitors. NASA is an anchor client for SpaceX. Also, do you like things like weather satellites? That’s NASA. Want to pay a subscriber fee for hurricane warnings instead? |
Weather satellites are actually DoD and NOAA. NASA usually runs climate satellites and of course space telescopes which everyone loves. I doubt SpaceX has any interest in astronomy or Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem type missions. NASA is about basic science and research; day to day is more domain of other agencies. |
Pay them a good wage and they won't need to "work" two jobs. |
Ha! As if corporations are all GrEEDY but individuals never are. |
He loves dem harbruders |
To the original PP here, are you suggesting no one in the private sector has flexibility? That’s not true. I have lots of friends and neighbors who do all kinds of things that offer a lot of WAH flexibility - even pre pandemic - that allow them to flex out, pick up kids etc… Govt workers WAH isn’t some unique thing and many of us WAH some pre pandemic. Are there slackers? Yeah, I’m sure there are some but to me that’s a management issue. I’m fine with making it easier to get rid of performers but generally think managers should be assessing work product and productivity. And I don’t think it should be treated like a prison camp. If Larla is a great employee doing lots of work who cares that she unloaded her dishwasher and cut up some veggies for dinner sometime during the day? I work in an office that’s really really busy. People can’t just check out and nap or watch movies on work time because they’d be missing calls and meetings and deadlines. So the kinds of things that might get done at home are the little incidental things I mentioned - and people in my office work a lot of extra hours so honestly the lack of commute is allowing people to put in more work. |
What is a “swing shift?” |
That is even more reason to work two jobs. If I am making 200K at job A and get a 200K job B that is 400K there are people who actually have 3-5 jobs in IT, they literally and very ironically often set up basement with work stations and pay young people or semi retired people off the books to man the various laptops. One guy had 10 jobs and even had an LLC set up to pay employees on payroll. Or it could be as simple I have 5-6 rental properties I manage during working hours and do tax returns on the side and sell insurance on side. 80 percent fully remote workers have a second job. that number is staggering. |
In college I worked the 8-4 shift or 4-midnight shift at mastercard. We also had a skeleton crew midnight to 8 am and since you could not work OT due to next shift needing your seat if needed we allowed Saturday work. We were in a high cost area and why let desks sit empty 16 hours a day. Just add shifts. We actually had a lot of working Moms who loved it. No day care if Dad worked another time period. |
Here is a worker at the office: Logon, go get coffee. Stand around chatting with coworkers. Respond to a few emails. Take break to sign kids up for camp and to make doctor’s appointments. Login to meeting (virtual because not everyone is in the same locality). Take lunch break to go walk around or run errands. … c’mon now, having a butt in a chair in office doesn’t mean you’re working harder than the person at home. |
+1. No one is worried about suddenly being accountable - we are already accountable. We're busy, managers know what we're doing, and IT is watching. That's fine. What people are mad about is being threatened and punished, explicitly at random, and despite their hard work, in a job that is designed to be politically neutral. |