{"id":32315,"date":"2021-05-21T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T04:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/21\/not-a-lot-of-trust-taiwan-wrestles-with-home-working-in-wake-of-covid-surge"},"modified":"2021-05-21T13:00:03","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T04:00:03","slug":"not-a-lot-of-trust-taiwan-wrestles-with-home-working-in-wake-of-covid-surge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32315","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not a lot of trust\u2019: Taiwan wrestles with home working in wake of Covid surge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Work culture of presenteeism sees some staff told to switch on GPS location tracking by distrustful managers<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Amanda asked a colleague to bring her laptop home from their tech-company office, anticipating that Taipei was about to join the ranks of global cities suddenly working remotely, managers refused to release it. She told him to grab it anyway, and soon enough the Taiwanese capital was placed under restrictions amid a shock coronavirus outbreak. Her company soon sent an office-wide email saying that 50% of staff would be staying home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut it still had reminders that working from home means you are working at home and your equipment must be connected at all times, and you\u2019re expected to work eight hours and this is not a holiday,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/may\/21\/not-a-lot-of-trust-taiwan-wrestles-with-home-working-in-wake-of-covid-surge\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work culture of presenteeism sees some staff told to switch on GPS location tracking by distrustful managersSee all our coronavirus coverageWhen Amanda asked a colleague to bring her laptop home from their tech-company office, anticipating that Taipei &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1643,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,74,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-taiwan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1643"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32315"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32315\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32316,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32315\/revisions\/32316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}