How Do Your Companies Handle Late Arrivals Without Causing Employee Frustration?

Dear friend,

I would like to know what the rules applicable in your companies are for attendance. In my company, we have framed the policy with the consent of employees that late coming for three times for 10 minutes is allowed, and afterwards, every late arrival will result in a half-day salary deduction. However, now employees are raising their voices against this. What can be done? As we were liberal, we were not able to start the office on time, and it was like a walk-in, walk-out scenario.

Please let me know the latest trends in the industry.

Regards,

Usha Yagnik

Hi, you see the same rule is applicable in our company but only to workers. To employees or officers, there are no time limitations. Even after office hours, they stay. Keep one thing in mind. If your employees are overloaded and need to stay almost every day after working hours, even for half an hour, then relax the timings for them. In my company, there is no record of leave for officers. Even if you take leave, it won't get deducted from the salary even if the quota exceeds. I was working in a multinational company. The best approach here is that you are bound to get confused by all the replies you get. First, analyze your industry type and analyze the job of your organization's employees. Is it time-bound or work-bound? Accordingly, make a decision.

Hi all,

This is the rule applicable in my office. Office timings will be 1000 Hrs sharp (15 minutes grace period) to 1800 Hrs. Any staff that arrives after 1015 Hrs for two days, not necessarily two consecutive days, will have their third day treated as a half day (e.g., being 6 days late in a month will be treated as 3 half-days in a month), and this will be adjusted in your allotted leave per year. Kindly sign the attendance register once you arrive with the time on it.

Due to workload, if any staff is working until 2000 Hrs, they can come to the office the next day until 1030 Hrs (30 minutes grace), but it has to be the next day, not any other day. The out time in the register has to be reflected to consider the same.

Lunch timing will be from 1300 Hrs to 1345 Hrs.

Hope this information is helpful.

Thanks & Regards,
Anjana