Whenever we hear businesses talk about whether to allow users to work from home, one of the first things employers bring up is whether they are getting their monies worth. Whether people are actually working as much from home as they would be from the office. “Proof is in the pudding”, or ‘we’ll be able to tell” is heard often. Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer decided to go to the VPN logs and see exactly how much those employees were connected and active. What she found was enough to terminate the entire program. Read this great article.
I’m working at home as we speak. I allow our employees to work from home. I think it’s a great if not required option in today’s world. But if you do it, it’s prudent to have some kind of metrics to watch. Expectations need to be clearly lined out and have a way to keep a pulse on productivity.
Written by Bret Erickson of Passkey Computer Services
http://www.passkeyinc.com @passkeycs
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