That's kind of what happened where I work. Because of the nature of what I do I've been at the office the whole time. But during the pandemic everyone that could work from home did work from home. Sometimes they would need one of the Engineers to come in to the office to look at something on the build floor, so those guys would come in when they had to but otherwise they worked at home. I mean who cares where someone is to work on modeling something in SolidWorks or pulling information from past projects or whatever.
But when things started opening back up they made all the Engineers come into the office. Every so often someone will get permission to work from home, but otherwise they are in the office. And why? Because the guy who used to be Engineering Manager couldn't keep track of what his people were working on and where they were in their projects without being able to just walk up to their desk and see for himself.
Personally, if I were in charge and that was going on we'd have been looking for a new Engineering Manager. And eventually we did. But the HR Manager felt the same way, she thought that people working from home weren't putting in the full time and effort, so she wanted everyone back in the office. Which is nothing more than an admission that she couldn't do her job.
I mean -
It’s harder for managers - because it requires them
To be More organized to ask questions of your team and ensure they are on target .
my current position is very different than my
Last job as an ops manager for a dept. Which meant I pretty much lived at the hospital because I’m a lead by example type .
It more compliance and contacting work .
So I no longer live at the job-
I come up with some ideas and ask questions about the structure of things -
Find efficiency and opportunities for savings -
And then get the stakeholders to fix it , while booking the savings .
there are days I’m not actually doing much
Then there are days I save the hospitals millions
I'm in the academic medical world (Professor, Physician, Researcher, etc.). I employ 40 1.0 FTE and about 40 other faculty/staff I support to some degree. My fellow leaders and I took the road that employees/staff/faculty should be remote early in the pandemic (if they could) and recently encouraged people to go to 50% in the office. It really is not happening. People enjoy working from home; there is an "ease" of doing this. My take: as long if they can be as productive as in the office, then go remote. Unfortunately, many -- based on their job (clinical duties) -- cannot be remote and this causes consternation about "equity". Interestingly, my take on this is that most clinical care can be remote, but the insurers require a physical exam for complete reimbursement of services. Then again all clinical care is relatively under reimbursed considering that much of that reimbursement is going to a (bloated) health care administration, but that is another story.
In sum: reward productivity not the face-to-face time clock.
yeah - our clinical pharmacy rounding team easily went remote during the start of the pandemic (when rounding was limited to only basic necessary personnel)
Just wondered if they continued that - odds are for the
They were efficient because a lot of tiMe was waisted with Rounding