Thank you for sharing. I find it incredible how so far all responces to your post are in-denial.
Being productive while remote is hard work and requires a high level of self-awareness and self-control. We cannot "will it into existence" by denying the negative experiences of employers.
Time theft is a real concept businesses care about. Business think they are buying time, with an eye to capture the results. If any one reads this gets confused or angry about this: go contractor. If you want to be selling results not your time then you best move into a working relationship where you sell results. Salary is a time-selling relationship.
As a remote contractor, with my own remote employee, I can say I expect the time logged to be productive time. I don't care if my employee stops work mid day to paint his house: but he better log that time. Flexibility is a responsibility, if people continue to abuse work from home you can bet companies across the world are going to return to office at the fastest opportunity.
I think the idea that businesses are buying your time (particularly in a salary context) and hoping they see results by maximizing your hours sitting in your chair is changing, and that's where the disagreement is coming from. It's not so much that they are in denial of reality but that the view of employees as time thieves or that there is just no way to understand if salaried employees produce results is already becoming a bit old fashioned.
Being productive while remote is hard work and requires a high level of self-awareness and self-control. We cannot "will it into existence" by denying the negative experiences of employers.
Time theft is a real concept businesses care about. Business think they are buying time, with an eye to capture the results. If any one reads this gets confused or angry about this: go contractor. If you want to be selling results not your time then you best move into a working relationship where you sell results. Salary is a time-selling relationship.
As a remote contractor, with my own remote employee, I can say I expect the time logged to be productive time. I don't care if my employee stops work mid day to paint his house: but he better log that time. Flexibility is a responsibility, if people continue to abuse work from home you can bet companies across the world are going to return to office at the fastest opportunity.