If someone is doing their job well and hitting deadlines with quality work, where they choose to work and how much they choose to work should be irrelevant to you. Too many employers feel uncomfortable if they don’t feel they have a direct power or control over people, so they try to extend it into ridiculously nitpicky issues that don’t matter.
If, however, hitting deadlines and producing quality work is an issue, then that’s on you to fix and doesn’t really have anything to do with people working from home or taking time off sick. It’s your job to set the standard for the quality of work and the importance of deadlines. And working late or restricting sick days/wfh/etc are just bandaids people who don’t know how to manage people use. They aren’t solutions to the issue at hand.
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