evil hr director…not for nothing, but it sounds like your the child. Do hr people have that important human emotion called empathy? Or do some of them lack it? Like sociopaths? And I am so serious when I ask this. I am beginning to find the behavior of some hr people…..disgustingly fascinating. I have a new found,ummm,I don’t how you would describe it…wonderment? If that’s a word,for hr workers. I could never,ever do that job,and what makes someone want to do it? I am a very inquisitive person,and very serious.

Are they getting their work done? That should be the only issue. If someone is a star performer and checks FB and email, so what? The issue is when someone is not doing her job. Then, does it matter why she’s not doing it? Either someone performs or not. Manage that.

I agree that it is not true for some people. I call these people former employees.

I’m a big believer in in paying enough to attract adults. But, I come from Pharma which tends to have the money to do just that.

Supposedly, they’re adults. They’re supposed to have grown mature enough to resist those temptations when they have work to do (for which we’re paying). Sorry, this concept is true and great for some, but not others. I spend way too much time dealing with employees who act like children. When they stop acting like children, I’ll stop treating them like children. Whether they’re checking Facebook planning parties, or shopping online, they’re not doing their jobs.

My best work time is first thing in the morning. My ideal schedule would be starting at 6:00. I can get SO MUCH DONE at that time.

My husband works best late afternoon. We both work at home and so he drives me nuts in the morning when I’m trying to get all my work done and he’s sitting at the kitchen table building things with Legos. (Not joking here!).

But I’m passed out cold at 10:00 and he works until 2:00 a.m.

Exactly. It’s only a nice thing for the employee if they should happen to work less than 40 hour in a week.

You can be non-exempt and salaried but when you hit 40 hours you still have to be paid overtime for anything above.

Which means you still have to track hours.

it’s a ridiculous designation and I would advise companies not to do it.

This. Also what you said about people working in different ways. I am perfectly able to concentrate for long periods of time (especially when I’m writing), but it works a lot better when I’m at home and comfy on the couch than in a hard office chair with fluorescent lights glaring down. Lucky for me, my new job lets me do that sometimes. 🙂