Studies done on worker productivity from home and in the office consistently point to the fact that working from home is actually more productive. During a certain global event of 2020 that cannot be named, employers and researchers were surprised to find that productivity actually rose when forced to work from the confines of their homes.
I always thought that these bosses who push these “always in the office” inflexible working cultures probably just really didn’t like their families and homelife, and assumed that, by extension, everyone else must feel the same way. Why else would they be so adamant in their belief that everyone else should leave theirs?
But at least here, there is some consistency, and these bosses are the first ones in and last ones to leave, again, probably trying to get away from their family for as long as humanly possible. They walk their talk and do so noticeably and obnoxiously.
Where these inflexible working policies become confusing is when they are inconsistent. When you have a boss who clearly dislikes coming into the office to work themself, and so seldom does, who insists that everyone else come into the office. There’s a level of hypocrisy here that is hard for staff to get past, and creates a real rift between staff and leadership.
That’s what was happening here, where this worker found that production in their office ground to a standstill when their boss wasn’t there, which was often. Their boss still insisted, however, that everyone else be present, so everyone was just sitting around the office all the time waiting for the boss to show up.
Author: Kayitsi.com
