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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. Am i the only one that sort of feels like they can understand where the boss is coming from? If work ends at 6 but an employee leaves every day for a week at 4:30, that’s 7.5 hours of time, which is basically a workday. Apart from the burned half hour, whats the objection to using 8 hours of PTO?

Not trying to be inflammatory, just curious. Maybe I don’t get the whole exempt non-exempt thing or maybe I don’t have the same sort of job as you all. [/quote]

The issue is when the employer happily expects employees to work late to meet deadlines but won't extend that flexibility to the employee when the employee needs it.  OP said the employee was working in the evening to complete their work and there was no business impact due to leaving early, this was just an employer being a pain.  [/quote]

Except that most employees can't see past the end of their nose so they, in fact, have no idea whether or not their leaving early has an impact on the rest of the business.[/quote]

I actually think it's employers that can't see that they should be focusing on the results people are achieving rather than the hours they are clocking.  If all you do is focus on the hours, you end up with a bunch of underperforming clock watchers.  If you focus on "are you getting the work done and doing it well?" you realize that the hours don't matter anywhere near as much as US employers think they do.

I work on a global team so everyone is working different hours but we focus on people achieving results not a set number of hours a day so it works just fine.[/quote]

I appreciate this perspective [/quote]

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