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Originally Posted by OtinG
Well I respectfully disagree. Just because you did your job well from home doesn’t mean others did too. I’ve seen the way many people worked from home during the pandemic, and work is not the word I would use. Some workers do have better discipline, but many don’t. I think there is a reason Apple is trying to corral their employees back into the office. And certainly there is no getting around the extraordinarily larger than usual number of bugs and the inability to get promised software features added before the deadlines of releases. Apple really screwed the pooch this year in OS development. So there is definitely a major issue that needs to be dealt with.
Granted with the pandemic many workers were also at home with SOs and kids as well, but there will always be interruptions regardless. Same with home school attendance. Plenty of interruptions and too little attention from teachers caused a huge drop in test scores in many of the area schools.
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I'm not talking just about me, I'm talking about the various people I've worked with over the years. I've been doing work from home off and on since the late 80's. You either get your work done or you don't and everyone in the work group knows who isn't getting their work done.
I don't think you understand life for IT workers in Corporate America. There is rarely anyone standing over your shoulder cracking the whip. It's very easy for a worker to skate by doing the minimum. Everyone knows who is doing that, but the manager is too busy going to meetings with other manager and usually there are a couple of guys doing 90 percent of the work so the work gets done.
Yea, there is a reason that Apple (and many other companies) want workers to come back to the office. That's what they are use to and they equate fannies in the seats with work getting done. Of course, that's not really what happens. You can goof off in the office just as easy as you can at home. As long as you have that 10 percent doing 90 percent of the work, work gets done. I knew a guy who ran is real estate company from his cubical. Everyone knew what was going on because everyone around him heard him on the phone. But they had a contractor doing the real work and the customer was happy with the contractor.
Things like bugs and features not being right is a management issue, not a worker issue. It indicates that management is not focused on the right stuff. I've seen it happen in a lot of companies over the years and it's never because the worker bees are goofing off.
A couple of years ago, I wrote about my dealings with Apple. I had been using Books on CarPlay to listen to audiobooks in the car. One release categories disappeared from Car Play. It was still in Books on the phone, but you could access it via CarPlay anymore. I called in and reported the problem. I talked with their support staff several time. They had me load a tracer program on my phone, plug it into the car and send them the log of what happened. About a month later, customer service called me back and told me the developer said that is the way it was suppose to work. Yea, right. The developer screwed up, and since they were already working on the next release, he was busy on other stuff and didn't want to be bothered. It's still not fixed. This was before the pandemic. What we have seen since the pandemic is just business as usual.