How do you know manage employee productivity when they are working from home?
Most companies will have an HR information system where people will log in and log out so you know the hours that they are working. However, maybe being cynical, employees could potentially be logging in and not working, and just log out at the time they’re due to stop. How do you ensure that they are actually working?
This is a difficult situation because you can’t micromanage, or phone and check in all the time with people working from home. You would however know if they are not delivering what they should deliver. This in many cases would not be in keeping with the contractual agreement with your employer and so you would be able to do something about this. It is of course important to make sure that you have valid evidence that the employee is not performing while working from home and before you do take the situation any further.
A client of mine had decided that employees needed to have two days a week in the office, but they’ve now made it three because they felt that performance was dropping.
During induction periods, I also advise that employees need to be in the office full-time, simply because learning through a Zoom call is less effective. In my opinion you need to have personal interaction as this is the best way to get someone inducted into your company and your culture.
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