Re: ADMIN: New Poll Question
However, as at least one reply points out, the situation is complex. It depends
on the company culture, and how employees put in time. For nine-to-fivers, it
will probably never be acceptable; for those who work flexible hours, it is
acceptable when kept within limits. It seems to me that means that both
supervisors and employees have to be flexible on the issue, considering it in
context before deciding what is right.
At some facilities the 9-to-5 workers have the opportunity to notice
that the flex-time folks seem to spend a lot of time goofing off. That
can be bad for the managers of the 9-to-5 crew. They have to get their
workers to be happy in spite of they think they observe. Those folks
rarely get a chance to see that the guy who comes in at 10:30 and spends
two hours standing in the hallway talking to various others of his kind, who
all seem to leave at 3:15, is doing anything useful at all. Actually (as
everyone on this list knows) the engineers are probably running de-facto
three shifts, and each of them is staffing two shifts, and the yakking in
the hallway is crucial inter-shift communication. The offices are all
cubes, and the two official meeting rooms are booked three weeks in advance.
Yes, e-mail is a help, but some things are hard to e-mail. [Waves hands
vigorously.]
It's up to management to see that employees do not have anything getting
in the way of accomplishing work. Sometimes it's management that imposes
the barriers. We all know all the Dilbert stories.
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