Comment by michaelt
5 years ago
> You should deal with the problem of the single person, in the same way you'd deal with someone who consistently delivers bad code, or someone who turns up to the office and smokes crack in the bathrooms.
You think if someone is a good employee 99% of the time I should fire them on the spot?
If it truly is a case of them being a good employee 99% of the time I'd honestly take the 1% hit in exchange for a happy employee. I'm definitely not suggesting just firing them, I'm suggesting acting in proportion to the problem, but focusing on the problem being them not delivering as well as they could be, rather than the problem being specifically that they're working from home.
Are you being obtuse on purpose? I'm glad you're not my manager. Of course that isn't what he is saying, he is saying why bother to change your management style of everyone for just one person. You should be managing each person differently. Duh.