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I’ve been Director of a software development team for nearly 5 years, and always strived to hire team members that I fully trusted, giving them tremendous freedom, flexibility, and autonomy. I have now decided to focus more on architecture and engineering, and a new Director has taken my place. This individual appears to like to be in direct control, knowing everything below him. He’s very strict about taking any PTO or even personal appointments without two weeks advance notice. He doesn’t want people to have flex hours and prefers we stick to 9-5. He is very critical and a very different style from my own. Perhaps I am being too sensitive, and having stern practices in process is what is preferred by the business… I feel we are in an industry that lends self well to flexibility, as long as output, reliability and performance is there, I like to reward team members with such. How do you feel? How does your organization and management treat? Flexible hours, PTO changes, within two weeks, and any other flexible/stern policies. #tech #wfh #flexibility #policy #hr
My full respect to managers who think like you. Giving employees autonomy is a tremendous signal for showing recognition of the value of employees and leads to a positive feedback loop. Maybe you can raise your concerns to higher leadership around this harmful new management style?
New director sounds like shit. At my org nobody cares or knows what hours you’re working, most of my mornings I’m at the gym, one of my coworkers takes meetings in his home gym, and the people I work with are spread across several time zones (not as bad as when I had teammates in MENA though). Nobody cares as long as you get shit done. Our PTO policy is just put it on your calendar so people don’t schedule meetings by accident, and give your manager (in my case I report to the VPEng) some heads up on when you’ll be out. If that changes, okay nbd. This summer alone I’m taking a week off for a wedding, back to work for a week, then off for another 3 for travel with my family. If I have errands I don’t even bother telling anyone unless it’ll take more than a half day. It’s really chill and honestly the main thing keeping me around.
I’ll bet that the new director will have destroyed that team within 6 months.