Why don’t I have employees? Quite simply put, I’m not interested in doing adult daycare again. I’ve been there, done that, and I’m not doing that again. The day I had to explain to an employee why little pigtails (the kind a 3-year-old would wear) weren’t appropriate for client meetings and why it was important to wear clothes that actually matched one another… I knew my calling as an employer was over. These are things one might expect a 29-year-old to already know. I had reached my breaking point, I think.<\/p>\n
BusinessWeek has a great article<\/a> on employees who slack off and abuse paid leave. What! I’m shocked to learn that employees spend lots of time while on-the-clock doing stuff that’s not related to what they’re paid to do. Shocked, I say!<\/p>\n Okay, not really. The article, aptly titled “Shirking Working: The War on Hooky” details some of the modern methods used to analyze the work patterns of employees. It’s estimated that $74 billion is lost annually to absenteeism, and that employees only work for about 85% of their pay. They goof off the rest of the time.<\/p>\n Companies giving greater scrutiny to employee absences include Wal-Mart, Delphi, Dell, Georgia-Pacific, and Southwest Airlines. Some are calling this “absence management.” Southwest says their new software has already saved them $2 million annually in reduced administrative costs.<\/p>\n Here’s the cool stuff: The new software can track things like the employee who is chronically “sick” on Monday or around holidays. Nice. <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/a><\/a> <\/a><\/a> <\/a> <\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Why don’t I have employees? Quite simply put, I’m not interested in doing adult daycare again. I’ve been there, done that, and I’m not doing that again. The day I had to explain to an employee why little pigtails (the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fraud-news-stories"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Z0e-hE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sequenceinc.com\/fraudfiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}