Harassing by monitoring silly things ?

Very recently one of my friend was telling his employer sent a mail to every one stating that you are “Ordered” to register your entry and exit every time you leave your seat, I don’t know what was behind this attitude but whatever it may be I think it’s silly and stupid.  

Employees will feel they are being cornered and treated with narrow minded autocratic attitude and will lose the commitment and josh to work for an employer in volunteer.

This shows how cheap your employer is on his attitude and it is better not to work for these kind of sick people but still sometimes you are struck with personnel commitments and other issues and you need to bear with these silly rules.

Why does the employer think this way? What makes them to go with these sick rules?

There are times when your manager passed by your seat couple of times where unfortunately you went to pee or shit, but he/she might have thought that you are not in your seat most of the time rather than thinking if my job is getting completed on time or not.

I believe an employer has no right to intrude into any ones personnel space, an employee may have 101 reasons to leave his seat for what so ever reasons he may have, asking him to punch every time will irritate him for sure (He may have loose motion where he goes to shit more than 4 times in a day or he is diabetic he has to pee as many times he feels to or he has gastric problem where he has to leave his seat and go out to open area to frat freely) asking him to record all these will make him feel sick about his job and employer.

So What Employers Can do if they find their employees are not in their seat?

Don’t worry whether they are in their seat or not,   It’s very simple for sensible employers to understand and handle their guys, Give them the work what they are supposed to do and tell them when you need (Minding the quantity of job you assign them) and go mind your business and if you do not have one as you have assigned all your task, just enjoy your day feel the happiness and peace around you. When the task assigned reaches the due time ask your guys what happened and if they fail to deliver , tell them it’s not acceptable as you know that job can be completed within the prescribed time and warn them not to be late from next time.

 Most of the experienced employees will understand and will perform accordingly; they will feel the same way how you feel when you are questioned sarcastically by your boss/client.  Never try to micro-manage an employee by standing right behind his ass to restrict his every access, you cannot make any one work on force and if you think so, you have lost your mind.

If you do not have any task at present that can be assigned to your employee feel free to let them free and do not bother them with petty things just for the reason to give them some work. Try to earn mutual respect and commitment from an employee which will turn him to be more productive when situation arises.

Do not be a controlling employer; try to be a consulting employer to reap “The best consultants”!

Still if you think you will have to micro-manage your employees, I think you have a problem with your attitude.

Thanks & Regards,

S.Grace Paul Regan