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Re:WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveil... by lliamander on Sunday June 04, 2023 @05:21PM (#36189704)
> but if the work isn't done, then the employee should still be able to go home after 8 hours and get full salary?

Of course not. If the work isn't getting done, then the employee should be fired. And that's the case even with the surveillance.

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Re:WFH – Watched from Home: Office 365 and workplace surveil... by mysterydip on Sunday June 04, 2023 @05:51PM (#36189936)
That being said, there's also a difference between progress and meeting goals. Employees can put in 100% for a full 8 hours and still miss a deadline (poor scheduling, issues/roadblocks that arise, or maybe they're not good at the job). I think a lot of the tension between management and workers is because much modern work isn't assembly-line-deterministic x widgets-per-hour.
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