“And surveillance doesn’t just lead to bad data-it undermines trust, a critical factor in organizational success that, once lost, is incredibly difficult to regain.” “While you might get a lot of data from tracking this type of employee activity, I can confidently say it’s the wrong data,” he wrote.

Any kind of employee tracking will only distract from the bottom line, Jared Spataro, Microsoft’s VP of modern work, recently wrote for Fortune. track often baseless productivity metrics, such as length of time required to write an email and individual keystrokes. According to the New York Times, eight out of the 10 largest private employers in the U.S.

To alleviate that paranoia, some bosses are doubling down on tracking their remote workers. Nadella practices what he preaches Microsoft’s hybrid policy lets employees work remotely half the time-any time beyond that requires management approval. “Instead of this being some kind of argument, let the data really help us move forward.” “I think the best way to bridge the paradox is not to have more dogma, but more data,” he said. On the other hand, 85% of employers say it’s difficult to have confidence in their workers’ productivity levels when they’re not in-person. It’s no wonder hybrid work is proven to be the most cost-effective and most popular model. Surveying 20,000 people across 11 countries, it found that nearly all (87%) of employees say they’re more productive when they work remotely or in a hybrid setup. His comments came a month after Microsoft released its latest Work Trends Study. The argument, Nadella said, shouldn’t be hashed out based on anything but data. Speaking at Yahoo Finance’s All Markets Summit on Monday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said workers and their bosses continue to disagree over their respective at-home productivity levels. Productivity paranoia is still plaguing executives struggling with hybrid work.

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