Leadership and Management Staggered Start Time

5 Comments

1. Ashley SamfordNovember 23,2025 at 12:08AM UTC

   "Team, as a reminder, any flex-scheduling must be approved by manager/leadership. Everyone is expected to comply with their work hours unless other arrangements have been sought and approved. This means an 8 AM start time, you should be at your desk at 8 AM, not walking in at 8:10 AM, unless you've messaged your supervisor/leadership ahead of time letting them know you're running late. This applies to management and leadership as well, we are required to get approval for our scheduling adjustments from our managers/leadership."

2. AnonymousNovember 25,2025 at 4:14PM UTC

   Guessing you’re in HR… I’ve left two jobs because of emails like this. They are disrespectful of hard-working staff, who may be working more than 10 hours outside the office to get their work done correctly. I was always a top performer, and worked far more than my required hours. I was nearly always on time (bar weather, etc), so would not necessarily be affected by this policy. However, to me this policy says “we need to babysit you to make sure you’re “working” a certain number of hours in the office.” For me, this was a cultural shift which told me to get out - it said “leadership here doesn’t respect you”. Not to say people in office are ‘actually’ working - and as a manager/leader, you don’t have time to monitor this unless you’re not doing your own job. I used to get twice the amount of work done out of the office because of bad management/leadership/other staff wasting my time with unneeded ‘meetings’ or ‘catch-ups’ which were often spent talking about x’s most recent golf scores or other non-work related mumbo jumbo. Just consider the impact of stupid policies on your best employees. There is very rarely a “business need” for someone coming into the office at 8 versus 8:10 am (obviously this depends on the industry). Please create policies that treat employees like the adults they are.

3. AnonymousNovember 24,2025 at 4:41PM UTC

   They are talking about a pattern of arriving late. If the staff member in question was adulting, they would plan to arrive on time.

4. AnonymousNovember 24,2025 at 6:30PM UTC

   Remind everyone on staff that clocking in from a desk phone or computer might be considered if compliance is not met.

   If your company is managing staff that closely, then I'd be watching for the financial health signals often present when things get tight.

5. AnonymousNovember 25,2025 at 3:59PM UTC

   Determine whether staff members are getting their jobs done and whether “operational need” is being impacted (it’s usually not), and then leave your employees alone. If you have performance issues with someone, address those directly, but honestly, why are you up in arms about someone flexing their time slightly if they’re doing their job well? It’s a control issue on your part. Nobody, especially a top performer, likes micromanagers (which you ARE if you’re checking to see whether they’re a few minutes late). The fact that you’re detailing your own schedule so carefully to ‘prove’ that you’re working your own hours perfectly is evidence that you have some issues with controlling time. Not everyone works like that, and you’re going to lose great staff if you start to micromanage staff more than you already might be doing. Let them do their jobs unless work isn’t getting done - you’ll be a lot more respected for it.