Employees discover they're being micromanaged upon return to office: 'You get flagged... if you aren't located near your manager'

This micromanagement has gotten totally out of hand at this major company, and people are guessing that employees won't tolerate this kind of treatment for long. 

It's a tough balance to strike, I get it. As a boss, you need to monitor your employees in order to ensure that they're putting in their hours and submitting solid work. That is literally your job to do so. However, no one agrees on exactly the best way to do it. If you over-manage your employees, they grow hostile and unhappy. If you don't check in with them enough, they think that their bosses don't care about their work, and they might slack off. Finding a middle ground is key, and it's the sign of a strong management team. 

You need to be able to trust your workers to hand over their deliverables, while also cutting them some slack for things like wanting to go home early for the day or needing extra time to work on a project before submitting it. You're supervising humans, not robots, so there's no need to treat them like unfeeling drones.

This mega-corporation is reportedly shopping some new rules as their employees return to work, and it's shocking how intense these new surveillance methods are. It seems like they'll be punished for being away from their desks for too long — and also for being away from their bosses and coworkers! That's all very intense, and I wouldn't be surprised if employees start walking out the door instead of being micromanaged to the extreme. Who wants to work in an office where every little move you make is subject to scrutiny from all the higher-ups? It's just too intense, and this company would be wise to scale back those efforts. 

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