If I’m paying you $200k to be a full time employee, I have an expectation that you’re proactive and working. Likewise, if you’re a contractor getting paid for hours, those hours are contractually exclusive to me - don’t accept the contract if you want to double dip. With a deliverable based contract, I don’t give a shit how many jobs you work, so long as you deliver. Respect is a two way street.
When you have your wife sending proof of life texts and posing as you, pretending to have technical difficulties in meetings, not only are you not doing anything, you’re like a disease that saps the productivity of your colleagues.
With respect to kids and other “life”, we set clear expectations - you’re not paid to babysit. Personally, my expectation is that our folks are professionals and we all deal with incidental things. I was stuck waiting for a gas meter change all afternoon last week. My admin’s son had a snow day. But if your car breaks down every Friday, or your 6th grandmother has passed, that’s a problem.
Well, if they are affecting your teams performance then deal with it. If they don’t cause ripples then whatever. People were slacking off at work long before zoom was invented. Ever see Office Space?
When you have your wife sending proof of life texts and posing as you, pretending to have technical difficulties in meetings, not only are you not doing anything, you’re like a disease that saps the productivity of your colleagues.
With respect to kids and other “life”, we set clear expectations - you’re not paid to babysit. Personally, my expectation is that our folks are professionals and we all deal with incidental things. I was stuck waiting for a gas meter change all afternoon last week. My admin’s son had a snow day. But if your car breaks down every Friday, or your 6th grandmother has passed, that’s a problem.