Washington Post (blog): Rethinking the workplace in the 21st century
Sometimes the sign of good leadership is an ability to see challenges as opportunities rather than roadblocks to success. Case in point: telework. It can be tempting as a manager to assume that workers who are not present are not productive. One agency head recently told one of my colleagues: “People come to the office and do nothing. I want those kinds of employees inconvenienced by having to come into the office. I don’t want them working in the comfort of their homes.”