alistair
What Millsy said below:
alistair I’m a manager. I gauge my team based on their output. If someone isn’t delivering on their targets and actions I’m not sure how being in person or remote makes much difference.
I’m also a manager. Oversight can be achieved in numerous ways. Virtual team meetings, one-to-ones, what they are telling you that helps you to understand the general mood/morale, but in particular the output, as Millsy said. If they’re not achieving targets, missing deadlines etc, you know something is amiss and more attention does need to be paid to how they are spending their time.
The reality is that the horse has bolted and all of the old hackneyed reasons for now allowing people to work flexibly has been shattered. Clinging on to the idea of putting in face time and if you are doing x no. of hours sat in front of your desk is outmoded and (where it concerns people who take pride in doing excessively long hours in the office) it has been shown to be counterproductive.
If you do a job where you have to physically show people how to do something as part of training, you probably do a job where you can’t work from home anyway. I’ve trained plenty of people from home because it uses the same ingredients as it would do if I was in an office setting.
