Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever

Re:Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever by MattGaiser on Friday August 07, 2020 @04:54PM (#24086357)

I love remote work. But yeah, I have also realized that if I didn’t show up for a few days, nobody would notice.

And that presents a long term problem.

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Re:Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever by chronofar on Friday August 07, 2020 @05:40PM (#24086735)

Whether or not you show up shouldn't matter. Whether your work gets done should.

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Re:Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever by stjohnswarts on Friday August 07, 2020 @07:46PM (#24087627)

If you didn't do any work for a few days no one would notice? That does not compute. What do you do for a living? If I didn't show up for even a couple of days they would send out the police and possibly the state militia due to there being a lot of "village knowledge" at my company.

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Re:Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever by ghaff on Friday August 07, 2020 @11:27PM (#24088694)

If I didn't have meetings scheduled or didn't have particular deliverables due? No. No one would notice if I didn't "do any work" for a few days. They would probably start to notice if I wasn't responding to chats or emails. But it probably wouldn't reach critical mass until after a few days.

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Re:Atlassian tells employees they can work from home forever by MattGaiser on Saturday August 08, 2020 @12:23AM (#24088935)

We do work in two week sprints, so that is when work is noticed. I am a software engineer.

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