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Comment by Swizec | Hacker News Reader

People hate it when I say this, but at the end of the day it doesn’t matter why you aren’t producing results. If you need help, ask and I’ll be happy to help. If you don’t ask, I’m gonna be very annoyed when the thing you said you’d do isn’t done and i was relying on you to get it done.

Conversely I don’t much care how you get the results. As long as they’re there when you said they would be. If you can do 10h of Netflix followed by 1h of frantic work, respect. You do you.

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There's definitely a category of people who 1.) Are more or less available during work hours, 2.) Do a good job of what they say they will do on or before the deadline because they work quickly and efficiently and 3.) Don't work a full day to the degree they probably would sort of have to in an office.

Haha, people do not have to work a full day in the office. Source: thirty years of archived Dilbert cartoons?

No. But there's generally a difference between what people can get off with at home and what they can routinely get off with in an office.

Does the company really care about whether they are vacuuming their floor or browsing hacker news?

Vacuuming is more restorative than hacker news. Gives your brain a break and gets you off the computer

At home people probably play games or watch netflix instead of just browsing forums, I don't see people do that a lot at work, and I can see that reducing productivity more than just browsing forums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boss_key

I always think of a Dilbert from the mid 90s along the lines of “when working from home, do I owe the company 8 hours of productive work, or just the same 2 hours of productive work I’d do if I were in the office?”

(Found it : https://dilbert.com/strip/1995-02-06 )

in theory, the same 2 hours - but you need to be available the whole 8 hours as if you were sitting in the office.

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