Theft of TimeEssay Preview: Theft of TimeReport this essay1.What do you think are some of the factors in the modern workplace that contribute to a theft of time? How can those factors be managed?Theft of Time is any employee who use his/her working hours to do other things that are not job related.There are different ways an employee, sometimes without realize, may be stealing time from the company.One of the examples are by allowing other employee clock him/her in without the person been there. Many employees leave the work place 10 -15 minutes earlier than usual to do personal business and ask other employers to clock them out at the usual time.
Over-extended breaks and smoke breaks are another great example of Thief of Time. Many employees use smoke break as an excuse for socialization taking more than the 5 minutes standard to do so. Lunch breaks and 15 minutes break are also mismanaged by employees, abusing of their time, taking longer breaks than the 30 to an hour standard.
Excessive personal time is one of the most common ways of Thief of Time by using working hours for browsing the web and social media, personal emails, phone calls, texting and other non related job activities.
An effective way of managing this problem is to implement new policy such a non smoking at working hours, and the addition of software that can help monitor the hours spend working, limited the access of the internet to only programs need for the job, creating email accounts for the company use, installing video cameras and/or security guards, change the swipe card system to a more advance and personal system such as fingerprints or Yubikeys and call recording for quality purpose only, that allow the employee monitored if is a personal call or work related and how long it took the call. It may seem extreme many of this suggestions but company wants to protect their interest and time that their employees are not working is money wasted.