''Working From Home'' Gone Wrong

In light of the coronavirus outbreak (now officially named Covid-19), many companies have encouraged employees to work from home as a precautionary measure to reduce the chances of getting infected.

Hong Kong-based newspaper Apple Daily reported that Hang Seng Bank in Hong Kong had also implemented the remote-friendly policy. However, this arrangement was taken advantage by six of their management trainees, who decided to go hiking together.

If that was not bad enough, the six employees posted photos of their hiking escapade on their Instagram accounts.  Cheerily posing for group photos at the top of Braemar Hill, the Instagram stories were captioned "best work from home activity".

Not surprisingly, their shenanigans was not well received by the bank's management upon being alerted about this. The management was not amused when they found out and sent the trainees warning letters. According to South China Morning Post, their accounts were not private and drew attention from the bank's human resource department.

The bank released a statement saying that what the trainees did was "not excusable", but noted that they were new to the company and might not be familiar with the work from home system. The company later said that they have reviewed procedures so that employees at home are now required to constantly report their progress to prove that they are working.

How would you deal with such employees? And more importantly, how should you deal with them?

This article was originally published on SAYS.com