A company wanted to test the 4-day work week. Instead, the boss surprisingly discovered that an employee was working for another company.
The boss of a company wanted to introduce the 4-day work week for his employees. Therefore, he wanted to find out where his employees spent their time so that he could optimize it. Our colleagues at Genbeta.com report on this.
Because the same amount of work should be completed in the future in 4 instead of 5 days. That’s why bosses like to talk about “optimization” so that less time is needed to complete tasks.
What exactly was the approach? To this end, he asked his employees to install the software DeskTime. This is a time-tracking program. In this way, the boss of the company could see where the employees wasted the most time and wanted to help them utilize their working hours better.
One employee, who worked entirely from home, had already caught the boss’s attention. Several clients had complained about his work, and his overall performance negatively affected the entire team. The boss explained in a conversation (via xataka.com): “I had a feeling that he was doing something in secret, but since there was no evidence, I didn’t want to jump to conclusions.”
A software reveals the employee who works for another company
The employee reveals himself: But then the employee made a mistake: he forgot that he had installed the software. And thus the boss could discover that the employee spent more than half of his day working for a U.S. company, which was recorded in the software reports:
It seems that he forgot about the monitoring software because once it is downloaded, it does not need to be manually turned on and off. I probably would have let him go anyway, but the recorded data was the missing evidence.
To prevent such secret work, some companies want their employees to return to the office again. For example, a boss forbade his employee from working from home, so he had to go back to the office. But he doesn’t just let it sit: Employee is forced by the boss to go to the office – He gives in, has his moment of triumph shortly after
