I have yet to work for a job that tracks mouse movement to gauge activity. The sales team activity is tracked in stuff like Salesforce, which makes sense, because it logs calls and whatnot. Mouse movement management is a sociopathic degree of micromanagement. Any company that has to spy on its employees to make sure they’re working is failing at managing its employees.
What a pointless waste of time and electricity that would be.
My company isn’t going to pay for someone to real-time monitor or review webcam footage of dozens of employees every day to make sure every minute is accounted for.
You’re still on the forums, screwing around during a work day even while you’re not at home, yes? Is that how you get in your mouse and keyboard movements to fool the activity snooper at your company?
I have stories that are expected to be finished by the end of a sprint, and stand up every morning where I have to say what I’ve worked on. Not to mention people see my code when it’s pushed to the repo.
It’d be very easy for them to determine if I’m slacking.
That’s what humans do, though, be wasteful and whistle past the graveyard, then collectively wring our hands and scream “HOW DID THIS HAPPEN” when our antics bite us in the butt in the end.
Powering 58 million electric cars would take 1.7Twz of electricity, but instead we waste that 1.7Twz farming bitcoin to fuel a massive ponzi scheme. Because humans love nothing better than to piss away everything we have chasing trash.
Its probably more, Joe and Susan have a lot more time to their day because they don’t have to waste time commuting to and from work and they would like to keep that extra time instead of being forced to RTO. And since there are a plethora of WFH jobs out there, they aren’t worried about moving on to a new position.
However, Blizzard is making themselves a less desirable place to work because of forced RTO, and we all found out what was going on in those offices so I don’t really blame anybody for not wanting to go back there
Someone is completely ignoring the alarm bells that are being rung on the low staffing due to departures meaning that future patches and expansions are in jeopardy of not shipping on time. That affects you directly, Skip.
No one is gonna go out and hire all the Boomers complaining about how “back in MY DAY we had to HIKE to work in the SNOW uphill both ways, we took home five shiny nickels and we LIKED it!” They’re going to end up having to hire underqualified people who just happen to live in the right geographic area and are willing to deal with low pay and monstrous traffic to schlep in to the office and have meetings on Zoom or Teams anyway, because they’re located in multiple offices.
In other words, they’re going to end up hiring the people who happen to already live in Irvine or Austin who can’t find other work in the games industry that will allow them to work from home.
That’s going to get them some reaaaaaally high quality people, I bet.
So much this. I enjoy working, I don’t enjoy commuting. And WFH gives me much more flexibility. Midnight 3-continent meeting with Asia and Europe at midnight my time? No problem while working from home.
I guess I come from a very non-automated management background. I actually talked to my people, trained them to be self-sufficient and aware of what they were responsible for, and didn’t give a single crap if they worked 4 hours or 8 as long as the work that needed to get done got done.
I’m not an office person with a 9-5 job, my hours can either start at 2 am in the morning or 7 am in the morning depending on where I need to go the next day
There are a lot of people who lick the corporate boot because they’ve been told that it’s a culture war, and a lot of those people have only ever had or known people who have “if there’s time to LEAN there’s time to CLEAN” jobs. They can’t even conceptualize of knowledge-based or reactive service jobs where you’re getting paid for your expertise, not your time or how every minute of your time is spent.
