Can you get fired for coming in to work late?
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 Dec 14 2020, 04:43 PM
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Arriving to work on time can be settled in many ways. Eg. Staff may be rewarded for achieving certain targets, same as medical leave taken, etc
The issue is lack of recognition and lowered morale which leads to less motivation to support organization needs and hence the perception that contractual terms such as work hours may be broken because the company is a 'lousy place to work'. This is then a sign of poor management which HR should help address. A highly motivated workforce with clear reward incentives linked to meeting organisation goals do not have persistent punctuality issues  |
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Dec 14 2020, 09:56 PM
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QUOTE(sickjoker @ Dec 14 2020, 05:40 PM) Actually a highly motivated workforce do not even need to worry about punctuality issues. Punctuality does not only mean arriving and departing from office. It includes being on time say for meetings especially if one is chairing it. By extension, this trait contributes to the ability to provide timely delivery such as project deadlines as well et cetera.Once you put punctuality as one of the "requirement" when punctuality is not actually required you introduce more politics into the company. Now a person can say that he is a "better" worker just because he is more punctual then the others. But yet the others may be more productive. It's a joke really if you think about the entire time in time out system. If say I go back at say 6pm or 7pm. I reach home at say 8 or 9 after dinner, traffic jam etc. Do you think anyone would have mood to finish their work? whereelse if i go back earlier. I rest a little bit. I still have hours left to work. A good leader can make the team motivated if he really cares for the team. On the other hand, a bad leader who introduce pointless sop like punctuality will always be left with incapable people in the team in the end. People who only know how to bullshit instead of working properly. And their project end up to be a failure.  Agree with you that there are many other ways to motivate and measure performance. However punctuality is a key character in any successful person as it shows we are mindful for those we interact with, our colleagues, team members, customers |
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Dec 15 2020, 02:12 PM
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QUOTE(sickjoker @ Dec 15 2020, 12:10 PM) The issue here is arriving and departing from office. The topic is covered under punctuality. Obviously everyone knows the importance of being on time for meetings. And also delivery of tasks on time. Why are you changing the topic? If everyone knows the importance of being on time, why would one specifically exclude an agreed time to start work? Just like meetings set with a start time. To answer TS, if a staff persistently fails to meet a target mutually agreed prior, then the staff is in breach of the agreement and faces the consequences specified therein. However as i mentioned earlier, the cause of such insubordination is usually attributed to poor management. |
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