‘We’re Putting a Camera Up Your…’ A Billionaire’s WFH Rant Cost Him 23 Employees Overnight
The billionaire’s viral remote-work surveillance policy sparked outrage online—but the data shows employee distraction is a real problem for managers.
EXPERT OPINION BY SUZANNE LUCAS, HUMAN RESOURCES CONSULTANT, EVIL HR LADY @REALEVILHRLADY
You’re not imagining it. Your employees are doomscrolling when they should be working.
Billionaire attorney John Morgan told The Iced Coffee Hour, “We’re living in a world where there’s a lot of people that just don’t want to work.”
That made a lot of people mad. And he didn’t endear himself to others when he explained his work-from-home policy:
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“Here’s what we’re going to do. You can work from home, but guess what? We’re going to put a camera on your computer. We’re going to put a camera up your ass.”
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He also said he would employ keystroke software to really see how much people were actually working.
To emphasize his point that people really don’t want to work, he shared that 23 people quit as soon as this work-from-home policy was announced.
He’s currently the most hated billionaire on the internet. And while he’s provocative (on purpose, I suspect), plenty of people are spending a lot of the day not working, and remote work makes it easier.
Source: www.inc.com
