Micromanager enforces 14-hour Zoom call to monitor employees, entire team quits to work for their competitor: 'The company closed'

There are numerous ways to monitor employees' progress without making them feel like they are being watched like a hawk. However, it's safe to say that enforcing a new rule that requires a team to log into Zoom calls that last the entire duration of the workday is a bridge too far.

Look, it's an unfortunate reality that in every workplace, a large part of a manager's job is to ensure that all the employees working under them are meeting their expectations and deadlines properly. This inevitably means that managers are going to have to track your progress and productivity in some capacity. However, there should be boundaries and respect for how other people get their work done. 

While managers have to likely gather information on their team's progress and report it to their respective bosses, another key part of management is ensuring that the people who work under you feel supported and taken care of at work. Invading employees' privacy and making your team members feel like they cannot be themselves throughout the workday is not exactly conducive to a healthy work environment. It should be within every employee's right to create their own sense of safety and freedom in the workplace, provided that they are completing their work on time and fulfilling their responsibilities without inconveniencing others on the team. As long as others are not adversely affected by the way in which an employee chooses to work, their manager should not feel entitled to restrict their sense of freedom at work. 

In this instance, this manager tried to institute 14-hour Zoom calls in order to track the every move of their fully remote employees, thereby defeating the purpose of being able to work remotely. Keep scrolling below to see how this manager's team responded to the new rule!

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