Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
by DougN7 on Sunday February 05, 2023 @02:05PM
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With three out of three different employees so far, all slowly did less and less work the longer they worked from home. I’m 90% sure one of them had an additional job, and another one admitted it when he quit. I don’t like to micromanage so give developers a lot of freedom. Few people have as much long-term integrity as we like to pretend we all have.
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Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
by pc86 on Sunday February 05, 2023 @02:39PM
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If they aren't getting stuff done, that's its own conversation. Whether they have a second (or third, or fourth) job is irrelevant.
Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
by DougN7 on Monday February 06, 2023 @08:13AM
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They weren’t getting stuff done, because they weren’t putting in the time to get it done, because they were splitting their time between two jobs.
Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
by pc86 on Tuesday February 07, 2023 @09:11AM
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That's my point though. It isn't "oh they had two jobs so they got fired," it's "they weren't performing so they got fired."
Plenty of people with one job don't perform and get cut. I've worked with people in the past who I knew had multiple FT jobs, or a FT job and a very demanding contracting schedule, or whatever, and had no trouble doing their work in a reasonable timeframe.
This whole idea that it's wrong or bad to have two FT jobs just smells like some middle manager feeling like they "own" their employees. I'm glad to see the culture has shifted somewhat and people are starting to see how ridiculous that mindset is.
Re:Ask HN: Employers, why do you want us back in the office?
by maigret on Friday February 10, 2023 @12:09PM
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It’s not irrelevant and could be a conflict of interest if you work for competitors. Where I live I’m pretty sure you can’t have multiple jobs without informing all employers. Also you can’t claim more than a normal day job of hours, so both jobs have to be part time and can’t add on to more than one full time.