> For every person who sings the praises of remote work. There are 10 people who slack off with Netflix, YouTube, friends, etc. during work from home.
Like they weren't sneaking in reddit and HN the whole time they were in the office as well. Just with the constant mental stress of getting "caught" doing exactly what everyone else was doing.
We hired a guy when we were still in the office years ago (we went remote long before the pandemic): his trial month was great; he was engaging, smart, etc. We felt lucky we got him. Straight after that month, he seemed to have fully lost interest. A few months later he still showed 0 interest, had to be dragged along to do any work. He seemed to make late evenings in the office though: we did not get it. We collected enough proof he was violating his contract and fired him; upon inspection of his computer, we found terabytes of downloaded porn. Incredibly weird but I guess if you don't like reddit or Netflix...
Like they weren't sneaking in reddit and HN the whole time they were in the office as well. Just with the constant mental stress of getting "caught" doing exactly what everyone else was doing.