Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the Right to Request Remote Work Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Finn Hegarty:

We are also against monitoring. It goes back to Ms Mangan's point on trust. We create a culture of trust. One of our values is that we trust our team. We do not manage whether they are online from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. We measure people on outputs and achieving results. It is not about the number of hours they clock up during the day. It is about getting the tasks done and getting the results. It is not easy. We have had managers who came from an environment where they were co-located and then they had to go into a remote environment. They may have been a micromanager or sat next to the team. They have to make a shift to trust the team and measure on output and not necessarily monitor their every hour or wonder why they are not getting a response at 3 p.m. People's days are much more flexible now. This is a key element. We are against any monitoring or using such tools. We use tools to better collaborate and better communicate in the remote and hybrid world but not anything on the monitoring side.

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