Because clearly they are getting stuff done if they can post that video and not get fired. Otherwise, you have a low performer slacking off which is its own, completely separate issue from the video itself.
It's like that quote from The Office where Michael says Jim is a lazy worker because it takes Jim 20 minutes to complete a project that would take Michael hours to complete. Seems like you're saying you want your least efficient employees and can't be bothered to understand the working habits of your most efficient employees.
Or maybe, just maybe, using time as a sole metric isn't the best way to evaluate employee effectiveness or efficiency.
B) no one is paying that close attention to their performance in the first place or the metrics for performance themselves are setup in such a way that can be gamified and are therefore meaningless.
C) there really isn't enough work to justify a FTE for it.
My hunch is that its a combination of these two.
I've worked long enough to know that the mean time for work completion (assuming C is not the predominant factor) is more than 20% of your work week.
And if there isn't enough work to justify a FTE, then again your metrics are bad. The forecast was not accurate enough. And the only way to know if that's true or not is to fix the formula, do the math again, and figure out the truth.
In both scenarios the employee isn't necessarily the problem, or even a problem at all.
And if we take a step back and evaluate the source material, it's a TikTok video. It's meant to be content. Do we even know if the employee is really only working 20% of the time? We aren't getting a 16 hour live stream here, it's short form content. The truth of the matter is heavily obscured.
It just seems like a bad idea to me to base you're business decisions around a TikTok video, especially when it's one that is adversarial to your employees. Instead, spend the time to understand the reality. Like we might find that the employee is actually working 90% of their workday. And then suddenly you're making decisions that never need to be made in the first place.
> I've worked long enough to know that the mean time for work completion (assuming C is not the predominant factor) is more than 20% of your work week.
Depends heavily on function. Plenty of roles are somewhat peaks and valleys of backlogged work. There might be times where some employees really can get their work done using 20% of their day, but then at a different stage they would need to use way more than 20%.
It doesn’t take a genius to observe that there may be some fat to cut.
If you're tightening up the available amenities that should be based on totally different data that has nothing to do with a social media post.
The video struck me as particularly brash given the current economic climate.
Maybe we're watching different videos though.