Boss fires WFH employees for slacking
Just in case you work from home, take heed of what the consequences are...
We recently heard about a woman who was fired from her 18-year job because she was not typing enough.
Now, we hear of another boss who has dismissed three of his employees who work from home.
Of course, working from home is considered a blessing for many.
But that doesn't mean you take free time over prioritising your work. Because, remember, those days of trickery can only get you so far before you get caught out.
Where previously there weren't as many ways of monitoring employees working from home, now there are a number of tools that allow employers to determine whether or not WFH employees are actually doing their work.
Another Australian boss who suspected that something was off with three of his WFH employees decided to dig deeper.
So, he decided to check their call logs. This after he noticed a considerable shift in their behaviour.
"He already knew something was wrong when the work group chat had grown quieter, email response times had slowed down and calls were going unanswered." (Unilad)
His suspicions grew stronger when he delved into their call logs and found the space between calls was longer.
This prompted him to have some software installed.
"We did have some tracking in place through our CRM (Customer relationship management) Pipedrive," he said.
"Pipedrive is a cloud-based software company which essentially acts as a calendar in which staff enter tasks, reminders, and scheduled or completed calls." (Unilad)
His discovery was shocking, with his employees sometimes not even logging calls or sometimes logging ghost calls (fake calls).
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"After 18 months of monitoring his workers, he decided that three of them had to go due to 'insufficient work'." (Unilad)
All in all, the boss felt that he didn't want to put constraints such as keyboard stroke software on his employees, but if he had to, he would.
Because he noticed that there are some employees who do take advantage of their employers and business is business after all.
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