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Late coming & late sitting
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Some of the senior employee have got the habbit of coming late by one hour or 2 but they work late by 2-3 hour. Thease are old and good employees.
Should one be specific for late coming …
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Late coming & late sitting
posted at 3/30/2006 5:36 PM EDT
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Work getting done may seem attractive in the short run. But numerous fallouts may result from such practice, specially from a team standpoint. Early comers may have to stretch to keep up with the "bosses" day. There're instances when people were reprimanded for not taking "ownership", possibly as they did not stay late with the bosses to enable "deliveries".
If somebody comes at 1100 for a 0900 shift, (s)he should realize that the day ends at 1630 for those who were in at 0900, and not at 1830 or even later, which may be true for theirselves. |
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Late coming & late sitting
posted at 5/9/2006 3:54 AM EDT
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Sorry, but this sounds like a control issue, and it sounds like YOU are the one with the issue. First of all, I'd find out if it actually MATTERS if employees are at their desks, or wherever, at a certain time, or if the start time is the start time BECAUSE it's the start time.
I did a FASCINATING study once for a city department that was looking at initiating a flextime rule. We found that in almost 90% of the departments, it really didn't matter WHEN people did their work, because most of the work in the city was done by "backroom employees" who were NOT "public facing." No surprise there, right? But what WAS a surprise, is that very few employees are also "Front-line Facing" in organizations either. In other words, there's almost no real need for MOST employees of MOST organisations to work 8-5 or 9-6 or 7-3, or whenever, except insofar as management wants to keep their eyes on them. But the truth is that management is usually too busy with task roles to effectively WATCH employees anyway. They THINK they're supervising behaviour, but they usually don't SEE activities in real-time. They find out later. The point of all of this is this: You should explore WHY your employees work WHEN they work and determine if they do it because they NEED to be there (i.e. My employees have to call their clients at their offices at specific times of day, on specific days, and they need access to corporate information from systems in our offices at those times), or just because you're the boss and you say so. In many, if not most, cases, it's the latter, and, if so, WHO CARES when they come, and when they go, as long as they get the work done? And, if they're supervisory, you can't legally control WHEN they work anyway, accordingly to FLSA, so there. james. |
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