Comment by pritovido

For working for home you need a system in place designed for remote work. Nothing to do with work ethic.

And this system will provide the feedback that controls the worker works or not.

In fact with remote work done right you control productivity much better, because you measure the real work or output a worker does.

With remote work you are not as influenced to subjective bias like how young or beautiful someone is, the neckline or skirt(if you are a man) that could affect you without you even realizing.

You don't need to reward someone looking productive, going early to work and leaving late, staying in place but pressing a key to watch facebook when nobody is looking.

You also don't need to punish someone who is productive, using way less time for doing the work and then leaving home or whatever.

This "theater of work" is very real and as a manager it could trick you.

With remote work you can measure the work what is critical for your business to succeed and demand it.

Someone told me once: How do you know your workers are not masturbating while working from home? Playing games or watching TV? Playing with their kids?

The fact is that I don't care if they remain productive and generate the work. In fact if they do the work, enjoining life is a bonus.

There is this Puritan mentality that for doing work you have to suffer and people that believe in that demanding not just work, but watching other people suffer while doing that. Because they actually do suffer, they need everybody that works for them to suffer too. They are sadistic.

I have seen that attitude in entrepreneur or managers colleagues: "Someone who works for me is enyoing the work and I can't stand it""I have to show him what real work is"

They prefer showing their workers how hard and miserable life is that earning money!!