The strange phenomena of working from home sounded so good for employees who prefer to stay in their pajamas or sweats all day and avoid awkward interactions in the break room with Bill from accounting. But companies who allow remote work probably regret it, and it doesn’t appear there is a high level of trust about what workers do in their kitchen or basement all day.
A survey by ResumeBuilder.com found that about 96% of the respondents use software to monitor employees to ensure they aren’t doing something other than what they are being paid to do.
That’s what you call “trust issues.” Especially when considering the number of companies tracking employees’ productivity was 10% before the pandemic.
The crazy revelation from this study is that only 5% of the companies who responded said their employees knew they were being watched.
Here’s a quote from Stacie Haller, the chief career advisor at ResumeBuilder.
“It’s clear from our survey that there are still organizations struggling to manage their workforce post-pandemic.” Yes, Miss Haller, you could definitely say that.
It seems like companies found an ideal way to thin out the slackers in their organization — they show them the data before telling them they are fired. This study also revealed that many employees push back when they discover they are being watched. Over 66% of the respondents said they have had workers quit because of the surveillance.
If remote work is here to stay, Haller said companies and employees will find a way to co-exist in this strange new corporate world we live in now. Here’s what she told Business Insider.
“As managers become more comfortable in managing a remote workforce, and as younger workers become managers and have been working more of their career remotely, software monitoring will hopefully become antiquated and the focus will be on results and not the amount of time worked,”
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