Re:Nationwide tells 13,000 staff to 'work anywhere'
by TeMPOraL on Thursday March 25, 2021 @07:14AM
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You're asking that as a manager or employee? If the former, I suspect there were channels you didn't know about. If the latter, I don't know - but maybe they were channels you didn't know about :).
But the reason is, these chats are for conversations you won't feel comfortable having with your boss around. Cat pictures, stupid jokes, random topics. Even if people felt comfortable with such topics around their manager, they might still be worried that the volume of communications will be seen by the manager as evidence that people are slacking off.
Re:Nationwide tells 13,000 staff to 'work anywhere'
by UncleMeat on Thursday March 25, 2021 @08:24AM
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There's pros and cons. But I've seen it be useful for teams to have a "manager-free" space where they can shoot the breeze and complain about stuff without feeling like they are being watched or judged or that their complaints will be taken too urgently.
Re:Nationwide tells 13,000 staff to 'work anywhere'
by nicoburns on Thursday March 25, 2021 @09:44AM
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> without feeling like they are being watched or judged or that their complaints will be taken too urgently.
I guess my feeling is that if your manager is doing that then they aren't a good manager (of course there are plenty of not-good managers, but it's not part and parcel of being a manager)
Why is that? At all the companies I have worked at the managers would join in with these kind of things same as everyone else (not all of them, but then not of all the ICs were interested either).