Time For Personal Work

how much time do you give to your employees to do their personal works because the employee if he stays in office from 9 - 6 then who will do the personal work
of paying bills
going to some offices
gas
etc etc
I have lots of personal works and once in 2-3 days i go out in office hours for 1 -2 hours.
What you think about this, I assume software and call centre people might not get this privilege because they are hooked on PC , phone with clients/ customers only people in mgmt jobs / admin jobs gets this privilage ur views please and ur company views on gving time to employees for doing their personal work,,:huh::huh::huh:.

Dear Ravi,
I am an employee not employer and i do agree with your concern but at the same time I would spread an information through this response. I am not suffering from this problem, and i am getting all my personal work i.e. teliphone bill, electric bill, passport related work, gas, curier and all the work which need lots many spare time to dealt with....This is happening with the help of SAHARA. yes sahara has open it "sahara care house" to provide help to employees for their personal work. In my present office we have their one representative, we give them our personal work and they do it, they have their huge network and they deal with all home base services on minimum cost.... for your kind reference i am giving their link... please go through and check how they are helping....
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i have good experience with them...
regards,
Surjeet

Hi Ravi,
I guess....if we donjt work between 9 - 6.. we may not have the chance to go and do our personal work - like paying the bills (esp) :no:
So its left to the employee to manage the time well. When an opportunity to work is given, then people must make the best out of it and also dedicate good time for the family (after work)
Also, I guess employers give some option to take extra hour permission to do with immediate urgencies and also leave policies cater to their needs. Otherwise, its fine..
I see this as a viable solution :-)

asha but do you agree with me or not ,or are you typical HR mindset that employees should compulsary work for 8-9 hours. This reply not expected from a person like you :no::no::unsure::unsure:

:-)
U probably mis understood the term HR. Anyways, read my answer to ur post again. I have only mentioned that the employer is still doing its best to cope up with these needs of the employees.
There is nothing wrong in taking some personal time for a couple of hours off, once in a while. But lets not deviate from the topic.

An employee is basically working for an organizational improvement and profit, is he a machine?
no, so employee need to be given relaxation to take care of their personal exigencies also. If such a hard and fast rule like he should not be allowed to do his personal work, is imposed, none of the employee will show interest in the work rather get irritated.
Balaji

Dear Ravi,
Doing personal work during office hours is looking awkward and hanging out the normal work schedule. Employee can manage there personal work smartly. For example:-
1) Do your personal work at the lengthy lunch breaks when no body notice your absence.
2) Use maximum plastic money (credit or debit cards) to pay bills or purchase.
3) If your work involves outdoor visits (marketing or field work) then you can manage it to do personal work at that time
4) Ask your neighbour or friend if they can help you out to pay kid’s school fees when they suppose to go for there own kids.
5) You can ask to some field executive to help you out.
Apart form that employees are eligible for 2 short leaves in a month (1 short leave = 2 hrs. ). He/She can do there work during short leaves. Casual leave is also another option of doing personal work when it requires more then 4 hrs.Hope this will help you a lot.
Regards,
Pankaj Chandan

Pankaj you are right but no one has friends / neighbours all the time,, and all are not rich to use credit card.... :icon2::icon2:

Your are correct Ravi but in this case Short Leaves and Casual leaves are more then enough to do personal work - what you think?
Regards
Pankaj Chandan

Dear Pankaj,
1) Since when lunch breaks are 'lengthy' enough to household works?
2) How does plastic money/ hard cash fit in here (untill we make online payments)
3) Do you think it is practically feasible to ask the field executive and neighbours to pay the bills, fee etc. in todays urban culture?
However, the 5day work is really helping us a lot.
Also the concierge service mentioned above is commendable.
Regards,
Devashish.