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If you're an employer: Why have you never considered going remote (that is if your team can work remotely)? (alien.top)

submitted 11 months ago by suaibme1@alien.top to c/entrepreneur@indiehackers.space

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Please, I'm just genuinely curious.

But I'll like to help anyone wanting to answer by categorizing the reasons into like 4: You can choose any, or come up with your own reasons.

You believe remote work is just a trend, and will die soon
You think it's just a bubble waiting to burst
You think remote work will never be successful
You believe remote work is still in its infancy/ (it's early) and you don't want to jump on the train just yet
You're just uncertain about the whole remote work thing

I'm thinking of using your reasons to work on a bigger content (ebook) for my long piece here.

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[–] alex3tx@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm not in your target group as we are fully remote. But I gotta say I've had to fire more than a couple of employees because they took the piss when it came to what was acceptable and what wasn't. I fully know that life gets in the way and am very flexible with your family life, appointments etc, but too many people just to do the bare minimum (eg 20hrs tops instead of 40) and hope to stay under the radar.

It's because of idiots like this that ruin it for everyone else

[–] badtradingdecisions@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

I don't get it. What stops the employee to take long sh*tter breaks, coffee machine talks, long lunch breaks.

Same things are happening in the office.

I work as a contractor and perms are off sick every other Friday or Monday 😀 does it mean they should give up on employees?

But I get the point. Not everyone can work remotely.

We went from fully office to fully remote 4 years ago and people who slack off did it even in the office. You will always have 20% of people who do 80% of work. Remote or not.