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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, but that is because I don’t want to be micromanaged whether in an office or at home. I am a professional and I can manage my workload without someone needing to know how many times I pee, or when I need a stretch break, or when I need to take a phone call from my doctor, or when I eat lunch, etc. I am a high performer. I respond to emails and IMs in a short time period. I attend meetings. If my boss needs more than that it’s not a good fit.[/quote]

You aren't the employ they need to monitor. Many are not like you and spend a lot of time not working. It is these people who are ruining WFH for many of us.[/quote]
Why don't you just enforce performance standards?  Write someone up for not being responsive or missing deadlines or not being productive.  Do the same thing you would do in the office.
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Fed here. You just can’t. It’s a years long process to try to fire. And now we have “pre- PIP warnings” that you have to issue before a PIP. I can tell people are away from their desks for long periods of time but it’s not something I’m able to track otherwise. [/quote]

You can absolutely have performance standards for Feds, including for jobs that are mostly soft skills. Maybe HR or your management is not supporting you in this, but IME a lot of managers don't want to think about what good performance actually is and write that down so that it can be in a performance standard. And then they say "I can tell when someone is away from their desk" as if that is indicative of anything: my little green circle turns off when I'm on long phone calls, for example. [b]You should be meeting regularly with your people, and they should be reporting what they're planning to do and what they've done.[/b] [/quote]

DP. Amen.  It’s amazing how productivity goes up when managers do their own jobs.  No need to look at anyone’s logins on my team.  I know who’s working.

-fed manager[/quote]

Just wait- you’ll get these ingenious slackers. They do such a bare minimum of work and it’s impossible to prove. [/quote]

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