But how will you make sure their every waking moment is devoted to work? Gotta invest in some ridiculous office space and middle managers to crack the whip.
That’s the thing - if I’m being forced to come into an office when my work doesn’t require it, I am 100% a clock watcher, and outside my scheduled work hours, I an unavailable. You sent me an email at 5:01 PM on Friday? I’ll read it at 8:00 AM on Monday.
I don’t understand the other side of this. I work from home and already do this. Work from home is not 24 hours work unless you let it be that. My clock strikes 5pm and my laptop is turned off.
I am the same way with watching the clock and being unavailable after hours for work shit. I won’t be, come November, because I’ll be added to the on-call rotation. Not looking forward to it, but I plan on using the assignment of extra responsibility to ask for extra money. I think I deserve a raise lol. I work super hard because I genuinely like my company and what I do. It’s the first job I’ve had that hasn’t been toxic in any way.
I mean, being on-call is something that implicitly comes with compensation to match. I’m sure there are outliers, but it is literally extra work. It wouldn’t make sense any other way.
But how will you make sure their every waking moment is devoted to work? Gotta invest in some ridiculous office space and middle managers to crack the whip.
That’s the thing - if I’m being forced to come into an office when my work doesn’t require it, I am 100% a clock watcher, and outside my scheduled work hours, I an unavailable. You sent me an email at 5:01 PM on Friday? I’ll read it at 8:00 AM on Monday.
Take away my flexibility, and I take away yours.
I don’t understand the other side of this. I work from home and already do this. Work from home is not 24 hours work unless you let it be that. My clock strikes 5pm and my laptop is turned off.
I am the same way with watching the clock and being unavailable after hours for work shit. I won’t be, come November, because I’ll be added to the on-call rotation. Not looking forward to it, but I plan on using the assignment of extra responsibility to ask for extra money. I think I deserve a raise lol. I work super hard because I genuinely like my company and what I do. It’s the first job I’ve had that hasn’t been toxic in any way.
I mean, being on-call is something that implicitly comes with compensation to match. I’m sure there are outliers, but it is literally extra work. It wouldn’t make sense any other way.