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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dear Lord are there people who actually believe that someone shopping at Target at 2 pm is not capable of being supremely productive for their company? How antiquated. [/quote]

It’s a SAHM saying that. Their job is not to think[/quote]

While it is unquestionably true that *some* employees who are shopping at Target at 2 pm are high performers who are supremely productive for their company, my strong suspicion is that *most* of the employees who are shopping at Target at 2 pm on a WFH day are slacking off.  IME extremely high performance employees get a lot of slack as a practical matter, whatever the formal policies, but it is simply true that there are a lot of people abusing work from home while claiming to be highly productive—and that category is ruining it for everybody.[/quote]

And you’re convinced that if these same people were physically in the office at 2 PM, they would be productively working?  Because I doubt anything would change besides their location. [/quote]

I’m convinced that many of them would be doing more.  My sense of human nature is that there are many people who can be productive if closely supervised, and will slack off if not.  “When the cat’s away, the mice will play” is a proverb for a reason.  You may not agree, and you may even be right, but do you really think that’s an *unreasonable* point of view?[/quote]

I don’t think it’s unreasonable but I think it’s wrong.  I think the unproductive types spend a lot of time at work talking and chatting.  It’s actually easier to determine someone’s productivity when they are working remotely.  There were so many employees pre-pandemic who got by just by showing up at an office.

I also don’t think most employees are working in an office where management is closely monitoring them.  Most managers are busy and don’t have the time to be checking to see if an employee is working at their computer or is doing something else.  [/quote]

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