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Is hiding subpar performance that much easier at home than in an open plan office?

If someone is supposed to be spending 8 hours reviewing a proposal in detail, but they instead rubber stamp it after a brief look and head out to the golf course for the rest of the day that's pretty much undetectable. Especially if 99% of proposals are OK.

Unless you're the kind of micro-manager who records mouse movements per minute, demands webcams always be on, or duplicates employees work just in case they missed something.

Obviously for other sorts of work, the same behaviour can be much more detectable.

https://effectiviology.com/brown-mms/ could help solving the reviewing a proposal problem.

Shouldn’t there be a second person checking the work, at least every now and then?

You haven't actually explained how this slacker is easier to find out in office. Sure they can't go off to the golf course, but there are a million ways people waste time while still being physically present. Instead the scenario you describe is exactly the kind of weak management that doesn't know how to properly evaluate their employees performance that ends up substituting measuring butt in seat time for proper management.

I can't go for golf, but I can read HN whole day easily in the office.

Other way around.

No it isn't. You should still have deliverables and those don't really change no matter where you are.

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