A Singaporean recently posted on Facebook on how he hates to work from home. It is believed that his boss scheduled meetings late into the night and even forced employees to report every 2 hours. To top it off, there will be no bonus nor increments for the next 2 years.
Here is the full story.
I find myself working longer and longer hours with WFH. My manager has an annoying habit of scheduling conference meetings in the evenings and even late at night. She assumes that just because we WFH, there is more time flexibility to when we can hold meetings. Her rationale is that whereas last time in office the work hours were all taken up by meetings and discussions which disrupted real work from being done, now we can just focus on doing work during daytime, and schedule all the meetings in the evenings. This means higher productivity for everyone.
Conveniently forgetting or purposely not mentioning this means much longer work hours for everyone, while company has announced pay freeze and no bonus for next 2 years at least.
To make matters worse, company is rolling out a new initiative where every employee needs to report our work progress every 2 hours to our direct report, together with screenshots of what we have been doing for past 2 hours. To make sure we dont slack off while WFH.
Who says WFH is better? Home is supposed to be where we unwind from work. But now I’m miserable, overworked and feeling trapped in my own home. I’m really desperate to go back to office life. At least there was some kind of clear work vs home separation.
Source: Storience.co