Microsoft highlights 'productivity paranoia' in remote work research
The vast majority of employees working remotely are satisfied with their output but employers still don't know just how fruitful their staff are when away from the office, leading to"productivity paranoia."in the Microsoft 365 Admin Center under the spotlight in 2020 when privacy campaigners decried the tool’s ability to track individual-level employee data via metrics such as meeting, emails, etc.
According to the research,"Bridging the employer-employee disconnect", some 85 percent of biz leaders say they have a"hard time knowing for sure that their people are being productive." Yet whether working remotely or in a hybrid way, 87 of staffers say their corporate yield was just fine. Not perturbed by the flack the company has come in for for helping company bosses surveil their workforce, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said concerns about work rate was causing company bosses to have"productivity paranoia."
"Leaders think their employees are not productive, whereas employees think they are being productive and in many cases even feel burnout," he told Bloomberg."One of the most important things for us in this new world of work and hybrid work is to bridge this paradox."."We've heard the feedback," corporate veep Jared Spataro said at the time.
He said it's clear the world of work has changed and there's no going back to how it was pre-pandemic: staff value the freedom to work where they want but at the same time business leaders"crave the familiarity" of the traditional office setup where groups can huddle to brainstorm or"chance encounters in the hallways led to an unexpected collaboration."
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