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Re:Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment by michaelt on Monday February 03, 2020 @08:22AM (#22223895)
> You should deal with the problem of the single person, in the same way you'd deal with someone who consistently delivers bad code, or someone who turns up to the office and smokes crack in the bathrooms.

You think if someone is a good employee 99% of the time I should fire them on the spot?

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Re:Coronavirus Forces World’s Largest Work-from-Home Experiment by jon-wood on Monday February 03, 2020 @09:48AM (#22224534)
If it truly is a case of them being a good employee 99% of the time I'd honestly take the 1% hit in exchange for a happy employee. I'm definitely not suggesting just firing them, I'm suggesting acting in proportion to the problem, but focusing on the problem being them not delivering as well as they could be, rather than the problem being specifically that they're working from home.
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