Dear all,
We are a software solution firm based in Chennai. Our firm has grown from 10 staff to 250 in the past 8 years. Attendance has always been an issue more so with Seniors. We have been following the general shift from 9am to 6pm with one hour break for lunch. Timing in our office is not project based, so everybody follows the regular timings. My questions are:
- What is the general trend in IT firms regarding attendance, working hours. Is it regular (9to6pm) or is it non-structured?
- Staff who are given flexible working hours - what benefits and constraints may be applied
- Coming late or leaving early, do seniors need to follow the rules or do they get to bypass it
I would like to form a policy which doesn't restrict too much, but following this direction in the last two years I have found, we miss too many working hours and also have had staff who took advantage of the system. I realise keeping the staff in the office doesn't = productivity. But as HR need to come up with a system which gives freedom to work without the system getting abused.
Regards,
T. Anthony
We are a software solution firm based in Chennai. Our firm has grown from 10 staff to 250 in the past 8 years. Attendance has always been an issue more so with Seniors. We have been following the general shift from 9am to 6pm with one hour break for lunch. Timing in our office is not project based, so everybody follows the regular timings. My questions are:
- What is the general trend in IT firms regarding attendance, working hours. Is it regular (9to6pm) or is it non-structured?
- Staff who are given flexible working hours - what benefits and constraints may be applied
- Coming late or leaving early, do seniors need to follow the rules or do they get to bypass it
I would like to form a policy which doesn't restrict too much, but following this direction in the last two years I have found, we miss too many working hours and also have had staff who took advantage of the system. I realise keeping the staff in the office doesn't = productivity. But as HR need to come up with a system which gives freedom to work without the system getting abused.
Regards,
T. Anthony