So my work sent out an e-mail today clarifying their new productivity policies

[Swimmod_Luna]

Productivity expectations have not changed, we're still expected to meet the same standard while working from home. However, they'll only be looking at time "worked" rather than time "paid" (So if we take a sick day we're not expected to meet productivity on that day. Like how it should have been all along but wasn't for some reason. Who knew it would take a global pandemic for them to see how fucking stupid their PTO policy was. I guess that one's a win even though I know they'll roll it back when things go back to normal. At least now I won't feel pressured to keep working and maintain productivity if I do get really sick during this).

They'll be tracking us daily and expect us to meet minimum productivity standard every day. Minimum is 52% so whatever time we put in our timesheet, we need to have done productive work for 52% of that. So if you only get 3 hours of productivity one day, you can only clock in for about 6 hours that day. But then if you get 5.5 the next day you can clock in 10 hours so you're still able to stay at 40 hours. This is more or less how things were before but they're going to be more up our asses about it it seems. Usually they'd only talk to you if your productivity was low for the whole month and only start talking corrective action (not even an actual write-up) after an entire quarter of low productivity.

Now, where things get really fun is apparently if you consistently don't meet minimum, they'll basically bump you down to part-time. So like if you're consistently only able to hit 15 hours productivity, guess what now you can only work 25 hours a week. I guess this also would happen under normal circumstances if someone consistently wasn't hitting their target but these aren't normal circumstances by any means. It's almost like they're ASKING us to be shady about our time.

 

tl;dr: Athena complains about her job what else is new. Though I did make sure I hit that $600 bonus for March. Pandemic be dammed. I had an amazing first 2 weeks when we were still able to do community work I wasn't gonna let a little pandemic stop me.

[tsar4]

All the people working from home & rugrats remoting to school had put a strain on my router wifi channel.  I had to use a wifi analyzer app to find a decent, stable channel, only to have someone else jump on it & bog me down again.  Finally found one nobody was using & wasn't dropping off.

[Distortedreasoning]

you should all fight them on not rolling that stuff back. talk to all your co workers about it.