Please don’t “test” to see if people are slacking when they’re wfh. Successful wfh requires a high degree of trust. Everyone benefits from that increased trust. It’s an unspoken upside of wfh.

> Do they deliver what is expected of them?

If the answer to this question is “yes”, then congrats! You have a great team and shouldn’t waste your energy (and their well-being) worrying if they are working hard or not.

I'd be willing to flex a little and work a little longer to get more done short term for a cause, but if that became the new norm then I've just taken a pay cut and that's not an ok approach to it. A manager can always keep asking for more. That sounds like greed and costly employee turnover.

This is hard. Developers set expectations. How would a non-engineer manager have any idea if something should take hours vs days? Most managers ask engineers to estimate.

On the flip side, comparatively, it is much easier to compare performance vs other engineers working on the same project. At least for outliers.