Qikz wrote:Death's Head wrote:Moggy wrote:Death's Head wrote:Moggy wrote:Death's Head wrote:Frank wrote:Death's Head wrote:Frank wrote:You're assuming the people who only work the hours they're meant to aren't the hardest working. How do you know that the people who say they're working 40+ hour weeks aren't only doing 30 hours of work but taking long coffee breaks and chatting gooseberry fool about the football instead of working? Hours put down on a sheet in no way shape or form relate to how hard somebody works. You'd think, as a manager, they'd have taught you that
EDIT: Also, if you did have to lay people off and used that as your sole reasoning wouldn't you be opening yourself up to a whole load of unfair dismissal lawsuits?
Frank, I've worked with these people for years. It is a little silly of you to make assumptions based on nothing.
As for your edit, no. If the company is not profitable they have the right to take measures to make it so.
It's a little silly of you to expect people to work for free, too
How many hours do you work, as well? How many are you contracted for?
This is how the real world operates (at least in some companies). I just don't expect people to do the absolute minimum.
My original contract was 37.5 hours per week. I probably do 42-45 per week.
It might be how the real world operates, but it’s not how it
should operate.
Totally agree, but in the world of cost cutting we live in, that will never happen. Brexit is a good example of this. Some companies complain that they will struggle or go out of business due to reduced access to cheaper labour. Here is an idea, pay the people you can get more!
Pay more? Good luck with getting companies to do that.
Judging people on hours worked is poor though. I get more done in 35 hours (more like 15 with GR time
) than most people at my place do in 45.
Imagine what you could do with a full day of work!
It's scientifically impossible to do a good job for a full 8 hours of working. The human brain isn't built to concentrate for that long in a row and part of society forcing us to do this is what is leading to an increase of mental health problems, heart attacks and early onset dimentia because of stress.
No one does 8 hours straight though. The have a lunch break, toilet breaks, tea breaks, general distractions etc.
It is unfair, but unfortunately that is how the working life in some industries has become. If you don't do something, your competition will. Everyone wants to cut their costs and increase their profits.