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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My issue is I had some coworkers and staff very smart at certain things. SQL queries, PowerPoint, slack, service now, etc etc. We are all not good at everything.

Those few Rock stars really helped multiple people during the day.

Now home their “own” work gets done quicker and “they” are more productive

But 2-3 other people are way less productive. I literally struggled 16 hours on an IT issue my coworker could have got done in five minutes. [/quote]

It's true that no one is good at everything. Do the 2 -3 other people bring anything to the table? Or are they just dragging down the "rock stars"?

If the top producers prefer to telework because it frees them from the distraction of carrying water for the less productive members, that should rightly drive your organization to telework. Otherwise you have a culture and retention problem no matter where people work. Those people are not being paid to do tech support, they have their own jobs.[/quote]

It is the IT folks set up stuff like a Jira ticket or slack message that go to a place with a 24-48 hour SLA in stuff. And slack channels are the worse. Confluence and share point are black holes. You literally spend hours the guy at work could have answered in two seconds. That guy finished up work early and since home goofing off. And I am not IT I am paid to problem solve and write reports and presentations. I never asked for jira. Slack, writing own queries. I don’t work in IT.

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