Are they paid by the hour? Or salary? How do you know if you are getting your money’s worth? Many if not most are paid by the hour. If salary it’s a monthly amount based on some minimum amount of hours. Salary jobs usually assume you are working more than the typical 40 hr week. At least it was in my case. The issue I see with people working at home is determining the value of the work done. If they work 8 hours at an office for example, doing the tasks assigned then they are paid for the 8 hours of work. If working at home and they get the tasks done in 4 hours you have not assigned enough work for that person. And over paid them for the work that was done. If in the office it would be easy for their supervisor to see that they could be doing more in that 8 hour period. At home not so much. Great deal for the worker but not so much for the tax payer in the case of government workers. I would rather see our tax dollars used wisely rather than squandered.
Like I said I work from home so this isn't theoretical my entire organization works from home so that's also not theoretical even the ones that are local to the office work from home most days of the week. So I know that you're all suspicious but most people actually do work. Because what happens when you don't do your work is that the work of your office or your company doesn't get done. And people can notice that. If your boss tells you that you need to do an analysis of a certain event or topic whatever and it has to be done by in two weeks and you don't turn it in in 2 weeks then they know you haven't done your work.
In fact working from home what typically happens is you are able to work without boundaries there is no time that you have to get up and commute or go to the Subway or take a train or whatever it is you work until. It doesn't need to be tracked people are responsible. Of course there are people that will flake off but you know those are the same people that would have a poor work ethic even if they were in the office. Just because you switch locations doesn't mean that you can't still be a slacker and that's down to personal choice not because you work from home.
Are they paid by the hour? Or salary? How do you know if you are getting your money’s worth? Many if not most are paid by the hour. If salary it’s a monthly amount based on some minimum amount of hours. Salary jobs usually assume you are working more than the typical 40 hr week. At least it was in my case. The issue I see with people working at home is determining the value of the work done. If they work 8 hours at an office for example, doing the tasks assigned then they are paid for the 8 hours of work. If working at home and they get the tasks done in 4 hours you have not assigned enough work for that person. And over paid them for the work that was done. If in the office it would be easy for their supervisor to see that they could be doing more in that 8 hour period. At home not so much. Great deal for the worker but not so much for the tax payer in the case of government workers. I would rather see our tax dollars used wisely rather than squandered.
Like I said I work from home so this isn't theoretical my entire organization works from home so that's also not theoretical even the ones that are local to the office work from home most days of the week. So I know that you're all suspicious but most people actually do work. Because what happens when you don't do your work is that the work of your office or your company doesn't get done. And people can notice that. If your boss tells you that you need to do an analysis of a certain event or topic whatever and it has to be done by in two weeks and you don't turn it in in 2 weeks then they know you haven't done your work.
In fact working from home what typically happens is you are able to work without boundaries there is no time that you have to get up and commute or go to the Subway or take a train or whatever it is you work until. It doesn't need to be tracked people are responsible. Of course there are people that will flake off but you know those are the same people that would have a poor work ethic even if they were in the office. Just because you switch locations doesn't mean that you can't still be a slacker and that's down to personal choice not because you work from home.