Top developer doing more home office than allowed

manpreet Best Answer 2 years ago

I'm a release manager of a well-known software development company. In the project we work in, we have 1 developer.

Every worker in the project including me (around 20 people, mostly managers) has 2 days of home office per week which they can use whenever without notice.

Our top developer, who gets praise from everyone and is scheduled to have a raise on December 1st after he did an outstanding job, keeps on taking more home office than allowed. Sometimes he doesn't come in to the office for 2 entire weeks.

This is obviously against policy, and although what he is doing doesn't require any interaction with anyone in the office, it's still wrong.

However, since he is doing more than a great job, I feel like I have no real options.

I've talked to him before, and he agreed to follow the rules, but it had no effect on him.

How can we make him follow the home office policy?

manpreet 2 years ago

it's still wrong

Why? Because some handbook written by an HR busybody says so?

That's a deliberately inflammatory statement and I don't necessarily completely agree with it, but at its core is a very important point: why does it matter if the href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/developer">developer is in the office or not? You say yourself they're a very good worker and don't need to be in the office to href="https://forum.tuteehub.com/tag/interact">interact with anybody else, so if there's nothing to be gained by them being in the office, don't enforce it for the sake of it. Concentrate on whether they get the job done or not.