A billionaire is getting backlash on social media after appearing on a podcast and bragging about employees quitting when he demanded remote employees be on camera at all times.
John Morgan — a Florida lawyer who co-founded Morgan & Morgan and has an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion — appeared on The Iced Coffee Hour podcast on Thursday, August 27. There, he discussed his philosophy on employees working from home. Ultimately, his position boiled down to the idea that people who don’t want to work in an office setting are lazy
“We’re living in a world where there’s a lot of people who just don’t want to work,” he says in the episode.
To prove his point, he told a story about getting employees to return to the office after the pandemic forced people to work from home.
“You can work from home, but guess what,” he said. “We’re going to put a camera on your computer. We’re going to put a camera up your [expletive]. We won’t look at you; it’ll be a pixel… The first week, 23 people quit. It’s not that they don’t want to work from home; they don’t want to [expletive] work.”
John Morgan/Facebook" loading="lazy">Morgan went on to brag about using productivity software to measure employees’ keystrokes and ensure they’re constantly being productive during their shift. While he thought he was telling a story of his philosophy on success, it didn’t take long before people on social media bashed the billionaire for his style.
“That’s a sign of someone who doesn’t understand jobs. if you pay people for the work they get done, not for sitting at their desk for 8 hours straight. if it matters more to you whether they sit at their desk than whether they get the job done, you’re a terrible manager,” one X user wrote over the clip.
“No one wants to be watched like they are children,” another added.
John Morgan/Facebook" loading="lazy">“I cannot stand this boomer mentality. They will sit around all day, do nothing, and call it a productive day because it happened in an office. Meanwhile the guy who actually does something quickly and efficiently is punished with more work. Measure people by their production, not their time,” another wrote.
Morgan’s disdain for working from home may be misplaced: According to a study from Cornell University, shared by the US Chamber of Commerce, working from home actually increases employee engagement. In fact, when it looked for a downside to working from home, the study found that employees tended to lose sight of their work-life balance. The study found that people who work from home often found themselves thinking about work during their off time more than people who worked in an office.
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