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by Disruptive_Dave 4143 days ago
Yes, everyone is addicted to work. This is what we've been conditioned to know/believe/live. I'd also venture to say "fear" is the foundation upon which many managers/motivators operate, at least here in the U.S. Remote work has the same challenges; "if I can't see my employee at his desk, he's probably screwing off somewhere!". It's lazy, but it's what most know.
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"Remote work has the same challenges; "if I can't see my employee at his desk, he's probably screwing off somewhere!"

This should not be a problem in a sane software development shop because there should be a way to track a) code reviews done b) tickets implemented/code merged /etc.

LOC/hour is a crappy metric for software development but averaging these over, say, six months should give some indication if someone is slacking off. Or just working in a different project than anyone else but task based variances ahould be accounted for. It does not give a "perfect metric" that could be used for perf evaluation but should be a sufficient safe guard against total slackers.

I've implemented 300 tickets. All of them typo fixes. You've only implemented 100 tickets like Bitcoin payment integration and the DB migration. I should get a raise.
Could you please re-read my last sentence in the message you responded to :)