What policy would you make to ensure punctuality? Do you feel timing is relevant these days?
Just saw the post about dystopian policies at work which is mostly criticism. If you were the HR / Founder how would you ensure punctuality? Or do you think punctuality is irrelevant as long as you are getting the work done? Curious to know the right way to handle these things.
Techyuce
Stealth
a year ago
IMHO, punctuality should anyways be part of one's own discipline to gain respect and grow in life. We get our morning milk on time, newspaper on time because someone, somewhere is always doing there tasks on time.
Athletes train on time, Armymen manage their daily routine by the clock. There are n number of examples to show personal discipline takes you far ahead from rest.
I always tell my colleagues that company will not benefit if you maintain your daily schedule and come on time, but it will help you only.
Yes it's irrelevant. If you are trying to enforce some bullshit policy to be punctual new workforce will immediately quit.
Why do you care at what time is someone coming to as long as your work is getting done.
In fact if you keep it flexible, people are gonna be more productive.
VacantFuel98
Student
a year ago
How is productivity proportional to flexibility?
It's irrelevant though within limits. There can be a flexible range for starting and ending work that may span for a couple of hours. For eg. Work can start from 9 to 11 am. It should not go more than this according to me.
Best to have some core working hours where you can connect in real time. Otherwise, it shouldn't be a problem as long as planned work is done.
VacantFuel98
Student
a year ago
In this is there an underlying assumption that the roles are mostly independent or not too dependent on each other like software development and the likes?
I can elaborate more. Flexibility in start or end times is possible and can make sense for roles that are not actively customer facing for fixed timings every day. Examples mentioned by you like software engineering, design, PMs etc will fall under that category. But, it does not mean these roles are independent. A developer will need to communicate and depend on designers, PMs, other developers, testers directly for doing good work. None of these roles can work in silo. It is just that they can afford delays in communication with some companies even going complete async.
The roles that are actively customer facing like customer support teams, bank employees will need to be punctual at prescribed times because the timings of service are fixed. There, we can't have large parts of the team arriving at work at different times.
Be task oriented. Be accountable. That should be it.
I do not whether you were on Mars or bloody Pluto. But if you've picked up a pending task from the board and promised to complete it by X time. Then I'd expect you to do it.
Once done. I'd evaluate your work (code review, audit whatever) and that should be it. I'm not pressuring you to complete X amount of tasks a day and have a certain throughput.
I do not expect on-demand problem solving. The 'eureka' moment comes when you least expect it.
On the other hand, if you fail to fulfil a task you promised to do. We'll evaluate again. What was the cause, what have you done so far. Etc.
If I feel genuine concern and see you are not slacking then we'll solve it together, else -1 in your performance review.
After going below a particular lower limit of PR, you'll on PIP. If the trend continuous, assistance may be provided or else I'll ask you for your resignation.
As an adult, I expect my employees to have their own life. And I expect them to respect mine as well. I also assume they are responsible enough for doing their job nicely. Else I have a tangible report to not work with you anymore.
You do tasks, you stay happy, I stay happy. Company is happy.
I just can't understand how the management has so much energy to apply these draconian tactics. To me it just looks like they have they have too much time in their hand to micromanage others.
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