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I have a standing policy in every team I run: if you have to work outside of hours, double the amount of time that you worked and round up to the nearest day. T
by donw 5y ago
I have a standing policy in every team I run: if you have to work outside of hours, double the amount of time that you worked and round up to the nearest day. Take that many days off as soon as is practical.
The traditional “flex time” is nothing more than a zero-interest temporal loan, encouraging endless borrowing from the back of Sometime After Never.
I deliberately impose a stiff interest rate on that sort of borrowing within any organization I run, because while I recognize that we do need to field emergencies, we also want to penalize the “every day is an emergency” pattern so prevalent in the industry.
- indogooner 5y agoWish I had VP or directors like you. This is a great way to improve the team morale as well as product quality.
- OJFord 5y agoIsn't that always going to be 1 day? Or do you mean a nominal 8h (or whatever) work day rather than 24h?
- dkdk8283 5y agoI don’t double the time but I’m on top of OT and always make sure folks take time off. I normally round up but nothing official
- treeman79 5y agoSpent months dealing with almost nightly emergencies. Manager would give days off on a whim to be nice. Destroyed moral of every-one. A policy would have been better, and would have forced company to stop ignoring problems a lot sooner.