My workday is 7.30 to 16.00. My gen-z employee works 10.00 to 17.00. That’s not unprofessional, that’s work-life balance. And if you plan meetings with him at 9.30, you’re the unprofessional one.
It depends on the work being done and the workplace expectations. If there is a clear expectation that you will be at work at 0800 and someone shows up at 1030 for no reason, that’s not good. It may have resulted in a lot of people stuck waiting on that one person. I used to deal with both sides of this at a previous job. I’m not a morning person, not by any stretch of the imagination. I also worked with a lot of military types, which means that 0600 was sleeping in for them. They would regularly try to schedule meetings as early as 0700 and I had to push back on it. Thankfully, we had official “core hours” of 0900 to 1500. The expectation was that we would be available for meetings between those hours and did not need to be available outside those hours (so long as we worked our 8). This also meant that I needed to have my tired arse in the office and ready to go at 0900, as this was a very common time for meetings.
Just going by the given statement in the article, it seems that there was an expectation for the person to be in earlier and they called off without warning or a reason. Maybe they just did have one and didn’t want to give it. But, the given statement is “I’m not feeling it”. If there is an expectation that one is in earlier, and they just fob it off like that, that’s pretty unprofessional.
It depends on what you do. If you work an assemblyline, obviously that’s not an option. If you work in an office, then it’s pretty normal not to schedule meetings when someone isn’t available, isn’t it?
I wouldn’t plan a meeting during someone’s morning stand-up, and I wouldn’t plan a meeting during their free evening. Why is it a problem when someone starts late? (Assuming they don’t just 90 minutes late)
My workday is 7.30 to 16.00. My gen-z employee works 10.00 to 17.00. That’s not unprofessional, that’s work-life balance. And if you plan meetings with him at 9.30, you’re the unprofessional one.
It depends on the work being done and the workplace expectations. If there is a clear expectation that you will be at work at 0800 and someone shows up at 1030 for no reason, that’s not good. It may have resulted in a lot of people stuck waiting on that one person. I used to deal with both sides of this at a previous job. I’m not a morning person, not by any stretch of the imagination. I also worked with a lot of military types, which means that 0600 was sleeping in for them. They would regularly try to schedule meetings as early as 0700 and I had to push back on it. Thankfully, we had official “core hours” of 0900 to 1500. The expectation was that we would be available for meetings between those hours and did not need to be available outside those hours (so long as we worked our 8). This also meant that I needed to have my tired arse in the office and ready to go at 0900, as this was a very common time for meetings.
Just going by the given statement in the article, it seems that there was an expectation for the person to be in earlier and they called off without warning or a reason. Maybe they just did have one and didn’t want to give it. But, the given statement is “I’m not feeling it”. If there is an expectation that one is in earlier, and they just fob it off like that, that’s pretty unprofessional.
Yes, let’s make all 100 employees adjust their schedules for Bob who likes to sleep in.
It depends on what you do. If you work an assemblyline, obviously that’s not an option. If you work in an office, then it’s pretty normal not to schedule meetings when someone isn’t available, isn’t it?
I wouldn’t plan a meeting during someone’s morning stand-up, and I wouldn’t plan a meeting during their free evening. Why is it a problem when someone starts late? (Assuming they don’t just 90 minutes late)