Comment on Remote work is still 'frustrating and disorienting' for bosses, economist says—their No. 1 problem with it

• lagomorphlecture@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And if someone else takes 8 hours to do the same work that I did in 6, so they assign me 25% more, it’s reasonable for me to expect to be paid 25% more too.

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  • IHawkMike@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Of course not, silly. They’ll just promote the 8 hour person to something they’re more suited for.

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  • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes of course you should be compensated based on ability and performance.

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• el_bhm@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The juice bag has a quarter left.

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  • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s an incredibly flawed analogy…

    Why throw away a juice bag, that you bought and paid for with the agreed sum for the full amount, without drinking all the contents?

    Were not talking employers draining your life for more time than you agreed to give them. If X amount of money for Y hours is what you agreed on, why do you feel entitled to not pay your part of the deal in full?

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    • Revi@sffa.community ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Well, are they being paid for their time, or for their output? If they’re being paid for their time, then if their work for the day takes 10 hours do they get paid more? That just seems like incentive to work slower.

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      • DreadPotato@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Your contract probably specifies time, not output, so you’re being pair for your time.

        And yes, many who finish early with assignments just use the extra time to either work less or generally slower. That’s quite normal and completely understandable, Indo that too. Nevertheless, you probably should inform your employer that they’re not getting full bang for their buck with your current effort, if you’re consistently underloaded.

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• Kiosade@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If I had a boss like that, you bet your ass I would purposely wait to turn things in later and look busy until then.

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• NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can see this being an issue in an agile development environment.

  Work gets assigned points based on various factors. You learn how many points a team can do every X weeks (all teams will be different, each team tries to hone in on what they can do and how they number it)

  If you complete all your work, great! If you don’t, that’s okay too, but if you complete early, you’re still supposed to take more work.

  If you can never finish it all, you figure out why and adjust the total points you can take each period. If you always have left over time, you figure out why and increase the points you can take. If it’s a one off reason, don’t change anything.

  But if “I did all my assigned work” is the answer to then slacking off, that’s not what it’s supposed to be. All tickets done doesn’t mean don’t do more.

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• Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t know why you got downvotes, that’s the correct answer to the question.

  I guess people don’t like that managers are supposed to maximize efficiency and took it out on you for saying as much.

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