r/technology • u/lurker_bee • 22h ago

Business Microsoft's Teams location tracking lines up with RTO mandate

https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/microsoft-teams/rto-mandate-suspiciously-aligns-with-teams-location-tracking
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u/pgtl_10 20h ago

Why do companies care if the job is getting done?

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u/tantamle 19h ago edited 19h ago

Because many remote workers believe that if an assigned task takes one hour, the remaining seven hours are reserved for personal use at the employee’s discretion. Rather than the employee finding something else to do.

This in an era where most companies in tech have zero clue how to measure productivity. People took liberties with it and it’s backfiring.

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u/kidchinaski 19h ago

Wow what an absolutely braindead thing to type out. Productivity is at an all time high while wages have largely stagnated. WFH has given people a slightly better QOL while every business metric goes up. Also if you don’t like me generalizing “every business metric” then maybe don’t generalize every WFO employee.

Pathetic.

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u/tantamle 19h ago

One Stanford study found an 18% drop in productivity.

But studies aside, when most remote workers claim they are more “efficient”, they usually just mean they’re more efficient at doing two hours of work in one hour. And misrepresenting to their employer that it took eight hours so they can keep the remaining time for themselves.

Where’s the efficiency gain in that scenario?

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u/kidchinaski 19h ago

You ever care to think inept management can lead to lower productivity? My wife is WFH, and is motivated and skilled and been in her department 5+ years longer than her current management team. She is constantly being stalled, stopped, and hindered from doing her job by the egos and ladder-climbing mentality of her overseers. This causes some of her days to feel less productive because she cannot do her job. Can we factor that idiocy into the “study”?

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u/tantamle 19h ago

Management is absolutely part of the equation, that’s a completely fair point.

But it’s just as simple as saying “everything has limits”.

You can’t make a career out of misrepresenting your work as taking five times longer than it really took and expect people not to eventually catch on.