where I was able to WFH. For that matter, I very rarely did anything at my previous jobs where I wasn't on the factory floor being observed by, if not management, then at least my fellow co-workers. Also, I've always been paid by the hour and have never been a salaried worker. I was raised with the notion that if an employer pays you to work for an hour, you
worked for that hour. You aren't being paid merely for your presence on the job. I still believe that and have a hard time not being judge-y towards people who go on TikTok and brag about working from home and doing "eight hours' work" in two hours, leaving them six hours to play with their dog or read a book or vacuum the living room or go for coffee with a friend or whatever. I truly believe people doing eight hours worth of work in two hours are either a) doing a shoddy job or b) need to be given more work. So part of me is cool with any kind of monitoring employers want to do regarding their WFH employees.
BUT...
I'm Gen X and adhere to the stereotype that my generation prefers to just do their work and be left the heck alone. I'm also generally opposed to cameras being everywhere and everybody's (almost) every action being captured for current or future scrutiny. That part of me thinks that as long as the work gets done, the employers should not be spying on...I mean "monitoring"...their employees' actions.
And IA with Justathot--are employers all that aware of what their workers are doing when they're physically inside the workplace?
