Those workers and specially officers
who do not work but invariably sit late in office and come early to show their bosses that
they only are real performers and others who come in office , work sincerely for set hours and go out of office in time are absconders should learn
lesson from this article.
It is undoubtedly true that a true and hard worker
can do good work for hardly 40 hours a week . But a person who has to simply
flatter to bosses need not work but simply sit late in office so that boss may
be made to understand that he is better than others. Most of the offices in
government sector are victim of these late sitting worms.And most of the bosses are sick of late sitting.They are sick and they make other sick of many diseases.
Exception: -------Of course there are some exceptional workers who sit late for genuine reasons and on the other hand there are some other such workers who sit late or go in time are of no use because they are unwilled or unskilled or both.
“Late sitting” a term, which has become synonymous with ‘efficiency’ and rewards in ‘Public Sector Banks’.This reliance on the most despicable manifestation of inefficiency, exposed the chinks in armor of ‘Human Resource Management’ departments of these nationalized banks.In many nationalized banks staying,not actually working, till late at night has become hallmarks or ‘badges of excellence’, so necessary to get those coveted ‘PAF’ ratings, so necessary for those scale IV,V, VI and so on.
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Why Working More Than 40 Hours a Week is Useless
Those workers and specially officers
who do not work but invariably sit late in office and come early to show their bosses that
they only are real performers and others who come in office , work sincerely for set hours and go out of office in time are absconders should learn
lesson from this article.
Exception: -------Of course there are some exceptional workers who sit late for genuine reasons and on the other hand there are some other such workers who sit late or go in time are of no use because they are unwilled or unskilled or both.
“Late sitting” a term, which has become synonymous with ‘efficiency’ and rewards in ‘Public Sector Banks’.This reliance on the most despicable manifestation of inefficiency, exposed the chinks in armor of ‘Human Resource Management’ departments of these nationalized banks.In many nationalized banks staying,not actually working, till late at night has become hallmarks or ‘badges of excellence’, so necessary to get those coveted ‘PAF’ ratings, so necessary for those scale IV,V, VI and so on.
http://mitalismusings.blogspot.in/2012/03/late-sitting-in-nationalized-banks_28.html
Why Working More Than 40 Hours a Week is Useless
Research shows that consistently working more than 40 hours a week is simply unproductive.
Please read this article
For many in the entrepreneurship game, long hours are a badge of honor. Starting a business is tough, so all those late nights show how determined, hard working and serious about making your business work you are, right?
Wrong. According to a handful of studies, consistently clocking over 40 hours a week just makes you unproductive (and very, very tired).
That's bad news for most workers, who typically put in at least 55 hours a week, recently wrote Sara Robinson at Salon. Robinson's lengthy, but fascinating, article tracesthe origins of the idea of the 40-hour week and it's downfall and is well worth a read in full. But the essential nugget of wisdom from her article is that working long hours for long periods is not only useless – it's actually harmful. She wrote:
The most essential thing to know about the 40-hour work-week is that, while it was the unions that pushed it, business leaders ultimately went along with it because their own data convinced them this was a solid, hard-nosed business decision….
Evan Robinson, a software engineer with a long interest in programmer productivity (full disclosure: our shared last name is not a coincidence) summarized this history in a white paper he wrote for the International Game Developers’ Association in 2005. The original paper contains a wealth of links to studies conducted by businesses, universities, industry associations and the military that supported early-20th-century leaders as they embraced the short week. 'Throughout the ’30s, ’40s and ’50s, these studies were apparently conducted by the hundreds,' writes Robinson; 'and by the 1960s, the benefits of the 40-hour week were accepted almost beyond question in corporate America. In 1962, the Chamber of Commerce even published a pamphlet extolling the productivity gains of reduced hours.'
What these studies showed, over and over, was that industrial workers have eight good, reliable hours a day in them. On average, you get no more widgets out of a 10-hour day than you do out of an eight-hour day.
Robinson does acknowledge that working overtime isn't always a bad idea. "Research by the Business Roundtable in the 1980s found that you could get short-term gains by going to 60- or 70-hour weeks very briefly — for example, pushing extra hard for a few weeks to meet a critical production deadline," she wrote. But Robinson stressed that "increasing a team’s hours in the office by 50 percent (from 40 to 60 hours) does not result in 50 percent more output...In fact, the numbers may typically be something closer to 25-30 percent more work in 50 percent more time."
The clear takeaway here is to stop staying at the office so late, but getting yourself to actually go home on time may be more difficult psychologically than you imagine.
As author Laura Vanderkam has pointed out, for many of us, there's actually a pretty strong correlation between how busy we are and how important we feel. "We live in a competitive society, and so by lamenting our overwork and sleep deprivation — even if that requires workweek inflation and claiming our worst nights are typical — we show that we are dedicated to our jobs and our families," she wrote recently in the Wall Street Journal.
Long hours, in other, words are often more about proving something to ourselves than actually getting stuff done.
Are your 55+ hour weeks really productive and sustainable?
1 comment:
It is true as the old saying goes - all work no play makes jack a dull boy. It is same even in case of public sector banks. It has become a fashion in some of the public sector banks in our country that an officer sits in the office as long as the boss sits. It is unfortunate that some of the worthless bosses demand that all his subordinates sit as long as he sits in the office. This is ridiculous. Some bosses make personal business or underhand deals sitting late in the office and they expect their subordinates sit in the office and pass oral orders that without his permission they should not enter their cabin. In fact they are treated like slaves and some officers in order to be in good books and get out of turn promotions adopt the policy of only pleasing the bosses. One of the enterprising officer in a public sector bank put a spy camera to know what his boss is doing so late in the office and why the customers visit him only late in the night in office. To his horror, he found thae conversation between a customer and his boss - customer offering his boss a 100 gram gold biscuit as a thanks giving for quick disposal of his unworthy proposal and boss saying only this much? This is exactly what is happening in many of the late sittings, though we cannot generalise all late sittings.
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