- clever coworkers. - flexitime - i don't see how this actually is a barrier to working in a team if you have "core hours". - working from home/remote working. - productivity based pay or extra unpaid holiday allowance (i have so much i want to do...) - free coffee, good facilities (breakout room, real kitchen etc)
So you don't want to work with idiots? That seems reasonable enough.
As for flexitime... does 9:30am-4pm core hours sound OK?
Remote working may or may not work, depending on the job at hand, but it seems to be a popular request so it would be silly to discount it.
It's difficult to measure productivity, but it's easy to measure hours if you implement a clock-in-clock-out timekeeping method. It's horrid, though. I'll read into the better options and try to reward productivity over punctuality :)
Again with the good work environment - this would always be on my list.
my core hours in my last job were 9:45-12:00 and 2:00-3:45. it seemed to work just fine although changing to 10:00 am would me the flexible hours as kind to night owls as they are to early birds. i REALLY can't think of much work beyond sort of manual labour and shop work that neds you all to be in at the same time for more than about 4h of the day. and more flexible hours mean that you have someone in the office for a much longer workday - you typically had people in from 8:15 until half six at mine. that's really really valuable if you've got clients trying to contact you.
9:30 to 4 really does fuck all good for parents fwiw, and would therefore not be very attractive to them. you need to be able to leave around half three to get wee ones from school, and to be in after half nine to get them there. usually one parent can manage one and the other the other...
while i'm at it, when i was in a relationship etc, lalala, on site nursery would have been a HUGE draw.
proper flexi-time taht would be good and accountability - if i f*ck up a job i want to be disciplined for it if someone is paid to do a job and they fail constantly THEY should be held accountable for it and then disciplined until they start succeeding or laid off if they still fail... my biggest annoyance after working full time for over a decade is seeing people on 3 times my salary doing worse work than some of my assistants and no one that can do anything about it seeming to care... I want it fair - if you work damn hard you should get paid for working damn hard..if not you should be put in the stocks and have wet sponges thrown at you for charity...
And it's all very well saying this, but I'm not sure what approach would solve this problem. Unfortunately a sort of democratic process where people can be 'voted' out of a job would be impossible in this country due to bastart job security regulations.
you could look into putting accountablility clauses into their contracts, that made it clear that repeated cock ups that could be traced to them would count as gross misconduct and get them out on their ear.
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- flexitime - i don't see how this actually is a barrier to working in a team if you have "core hours".
- working from home/remote working.
- productivity based pay or extra unpaid holiday allowance (i have so much i want to do...)
- free coffee, good facilities (breakout room, real kitchen etc)
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As for flexitime... does 9:30am-4pm core hours sound OK?
Remote working may or may not work, depending on the job at hand, but it seems to be a popular request so it would be silly to discount it.
It's difficult to measure productivity, but it's easy to measure hours if you implement a clock-in-clock-out timekeeping method. It's horrid, though. I'll read into the better options and try to reward productivity over punctuality :)
Again with the good work environment - this would always be on my list.
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9:30 to 4 really does fuck all good for parents fwiw, and would therefore not be very attractive to them. you need to be able to leave around half three to get wee ones from school, and to be in after half nine to get them there. usually one parent can manage one and the other the other...
while i'm at it, when i was in a relationship etc, lalala, on site nursery would have been a HUGE draw.
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1: Flexi Time
2: Casual dress code
3: Comfortable working environment
4: Easy access to water (water cooler or an adjacent kitchen type thing)
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and accountability - if i f*ck up a job i want to be disciplined for it
if someone is paid to do a job and they fail constantly THEY should be held accountable for it and then disciplined until they start succeeding or laid off if they still fail...
my biggest annoyance after working full time for over a decade is seeing people on 3 times my salary doing worse work than some of my assistants and no one that can do anything about it seeming to care... I want it fair - if you work damn hard you should get paid for working damn hard..if not you should be put in the stocks and have wet sponges thrown at you for charity...
*nod*
Vix
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And it's all very well saying this, but I'm not sure what approach would solve this problem. Unfortunately a sort of democratic process where people can be 'voted' out of a job would be impossible in this country due to bastart job security regulations.
Any ideas, anyone?
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Incidentally, one week off in six would be nice.
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