‘Not a lot of trust’: Taiwan wrestles with home working in wake of Covid surge
Work culture of presenteeism sees some staff told to switch on GPS location tracking by distrustful managers
When Amanda asked a colleague to bring her laptop home from their tech-company office, anticipating that Taipei was about to join the ranks of global cities suddenly working remotely, managers refused to release it. She told him to grab it anyway, and soon enough the Taiwanese capital was placed under restrictions amid a shock coronavirus outbreak. Her company soon sent an office-wide email saying that 50% of staff would be staying home.
But it still had reminders that working from home means you are working at home and your equipment must be connected at all times, and you're expected to work eight hours and this is not a holiday," she says.
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