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Originally Posted by retiredguy123
Thanks. I can understand how a work at home plan works in a "for profit" business. I had a Federal Government job, and I relocated from Georgia to northern Virginia without a promotion, but I had a firm agreement that I could work from home in Virginia. This was when it was almost unheard of to work at home. It was a huge benefit to me because I no longer had to sit in an office for 8 hours doing nothing and waiting for quiting time. In the Government, there are very few employees who are "in demand" as you phrased it because many offices are extremely overstaffed and the Government doesn't need to make a profit. So the work at home plan in the Government will make it virtually impossible to measure performance.
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I'm a current Government employee working from home in The Villages...just recently relocated from Northern Virginia. You must have been out of the Government for some time because its VERY easy to measure performance. I do it every day with the 20 people that work for me....and my boss for me.
The bottom line is one measures performance, so are tasks completed, are deliverables...delivered, are mandatory tasks for employees (training, etc) completed, I can see employee metrics for the last hour, day, week, and month. With business tools such as Teams, Sharepoint, etc there is constant connectivity. As a manager, I see the calendars and schedules, and when one is online or away. I have more visibility being online than if I was a supervisor in the office.
So, to say "work at home plan in the Government will make it virtually impossible to measure performance" is a statement based on dated information. The Government from 3 years ago is not the same as today.