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As a boss who thinks remote work is fucking amazing, these people are retarded.
And I can guarantee that they have no fucking clue if their workers are slacking off in the office as well. They seriously believe them being in the vicinitee actually encourages worker to work harder. What a bunch of clueless muppets.
I do about half and half remote, and i do work differently in office than when at home.
In office, i handle physical elements of the job, and also end up being interrupted far more often by user requests.
When I'm at home, I'm able to get into a groove programming, and am still about 90% as effective remotely handling user requests.
For me the mix is good, and when it comes to long term goals, my home time is far more productive.
Today for example the system I'm working on was scheduled for in office, but I decided to work from home. Turns out, facilities removed all the furniture from the room so I'd have been sitting on the floor or working on it remotely anyway.
I don't understand the monitoring and observing thing. Is the employee doing their work effectively and within the allotted timeframe? If so great, if not have a chat with them. Where's the problem?
Who knows?
If you aren't setting objectively measurable goals, then simply holding people accountable to those goals, you're a shit boss.
And no, I don't care that it's "hard" to measure certain types of work. Come up with a way. That's literally the manager's job. Make it happen.
the goals:
Also shit boss goals, tho.
Y'all need to quit... I've literally never treated my people like this. Spent 20 years as an engineer myself, tho. As a Director, I still commit code like a principal.
Because they have nothing to fall back on and they are not in control of the situation but are responsible for the situation. Corporate eunchs, responsibility without power. The project is a disaster and everyone knows it, there will be a fallguy when it burns to the ground. So they melt down. Try to control the one thing they can.
I get it, because I have seen my project managers over the years in the same position. Of course they start screaming about coffee breaks, they are looking at unemployment. It's a shitty situation.
Our entire group is remote, and my boss has a fantastic way of structuring things. We have a weekly team meeting where we discuss our ongoing projects, and at the end of each week, he wants a short summary email of the work we did this week and the work we have planned next week.
That email is a godsend on Mondays to get myself back into the swing of things and remember what I was doing.
Yep, that's very close to what I do! Pretty basic scrum/agile methodology. Daily stand-ups, weekly planning, biweekly retrospective, etc.