Is mouse movement really the same as being productive? A remote employee, who had been working for that company for two years, was accidently CC’s on an email and found out that everyone had been monitored for productivity by analyzing their mouse movement. Although he recognized downloading software related to this matter, he was never …
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22 Remote Worker Memes for Employees Secretly Eating Pasta During Meetings
Remote work sounded like a dream at first. No commute, no uncomfortable office chairs, no awkward breakroom conversations about weather patterns. Then, suddenly, everyone realized working from home actually means answering emails five feet away from your laundry pile while slowly losing the ability to separate «work mode» from «existing as a human being.» These …
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HR department demands employee’s personal phone, installs location tracking app on it: ‘I questioned this’
How far should work be allowed to expand outside the workplace? In most jobs, there is a good argument to be made that the personal and professional should be as separate as possible. However, as the working-from-home revolution has swept across the world, the barrier between the two has been further broken down. A remote …
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60-year-old employee defies 33-year-old manager in refusal to return to office 2 days a week: ‘She argues everyone is overwhelmed’
Just because we don’t want to do something at work doesn’t mean that we can get away with not doing it. In fact, it is pretty much a built-in feature of most jobs that they are going to have parts of them that we do not enjoy doing that much. Even if it seems like …
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Job seeker accepts ‘fully remote’ job, gets told they have to be in the office 3 days a week during their induction: ‘This team has been hybrid for a while now’
Why do job applicants get penalized if they lie on their résumés, but companies get away with doing it on job listings? While there are people out there who are desperate enough for work that they will take any old job, plenty of job seekers are intentional when they are looking for work. Just as …
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A Collection of 22 Relatable Freelancer Memes for People Who Work From Anywhere and Somehow Never Stop
Working from anywhere sounded cool until anywhere became all the time At first, freelancing feels like freedom. No office, no commute, no strict schedule. Then suddenly, your couch is your desk, your bed is your backup office, and your brain never fully clocks out. Work sneaks into every corner of your day without even asking …
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Employee works from home, landlord tries to charge them $200/month commercial usage fee: ‘I literally just sit there’
How do you cope with a landlord who demands unexpected payments? It is an unfortunate fact of renting a place to live that the people who own these types of properties have a vested interest in extracting as much money as possible from their tenants. What’s more, a lot of them do not care about …
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Manager uses work from home option weekly, prevents employees from doing the same: ‘The other departments use it no problem’
Perks of the job that are specific to one person are almost always bound to cause problems. While it may be true that most workplaces have a defined hierarchy and most will accept that certain benefits only come from being higher up the totem pole, that doesn’t stop certain behaviors from being unfair. As a …
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Boss schedules ‘mandatory fun meeting’ at 4:55 PM on a Friday to review the ‘wins’ of the week: ‘This is the micromanager’s way of making sure nobody ducks out early on a Friday.’
They know what they’re doing, and it’s only going to make their employee’s resent them. You would think that everyone hates pointless meetings. If you’re going to interrupt an employee’s workflow, do so only for something that benefits them, you, and the whole company. Meetings should be for discussions that can’t be had over email …
Seguir leyendo Boss schedules ‘mandatory fun meeting’ at 4:55 PM on a Friday to review the ‘wins’ of the week: ‘This is the micromanager’s way of making sure nobody ducks out early on a Friday.’
Remote Learning Won’t End the Traditional Snow Day if Parents Don’t Let it
Six short years ago, it seemed like the entire world learned how to work, learn, and play from the comfort of their homes. It took a little bit of adjustment at first. Most of us had never even heard of Zoom after a decade of Skype dominating the conversation. But even with the technical hiccups …
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