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Glad I work at a place that wouldn't give a fuck as long as I'm getting shit done. This sort of bullshit undermines how people feel about work and likely harms productivity more than it helps (as is tradition with micromanaging people instead of setting them up for success and giving them the space they need to do their job).
Also, people who actually are slacking will find so many ways around this anyhow that it won't actually matter to them because they already don't care and are probably smart enough to get around it.
In a lot of ways, I have the opposite of micromanagement, they really don't care what the hell I am doing as long as I'm delivering my projects effectively.
Sounds like you work at a place that trusts you to do the job you were hired to do.
My take is: If they don't trust me, wtf am I even doing at a such a fucked up place? Then find a better place to work.
The sad thing is that some orgs that start off with healthy environments can slowly erode into really toxic environments and it's like a frog boiling in water.
Sometimes it can happen very quickly - all it takes is one person of enough prominence being replaced with another, and something that took years to cultivate is shredded in weeks/months.
Unfortunately, I've seen both of these happen up close and personal. Sometimes it's not always a viable option to try to pick up and move to another job...
Companies also get bought out by other companies and then change drastically overnight.
Yes, without question. That's usually a fast-track to a highly toxic place, because often the people that they have acquired are viewed as just somehow being there accidentally, or worse, illegitimately, because the new management had no role in finding them, hiring them, and working to create/preserve a culture with them.
Also, many weak managers just want loyalists and that kind of personality just worries that they didn't get to vet people so the people they have bought won't be sufficiently loyal...
In my current job, I don't mind doing a little overtime or working a weekend every now and than. They don't care what I do, as long as it gets done. They don't care that I go to the gym during office hours. I'm happy and I'm passionate about my work.
But if they started doing shit like this. I'd be working 9 to 5 and not giving a shit if work gets done or not. I'd become a drone and I'd be looking for other employment.
Fancy that? Don't you love it when your work treat you like...wait for it... an Adult. Rewarded accordingly, help accountable accordingly. Who'd 've thought! 🤔
No kidding. What dystopian hell do people work in??