At Workplace
"No gold will buy you time that has passed”, a famous Chinese
saying.
Exactly
how true it is, that the time that has passed will never come back, and how
many of us realize it. We as employees’ build an expectation from the
Organization / HR to have practices in place for managing the idle time
effectively wherein we ourselves lack in identifying and utilizing our Mandays
more effectively.
Measures
by the organization:Management
should not be focused qualitatively only rather must have processes in place to
keep a track on employees’ work quantitative wise as well. Idle time can be
consider as one of the key factors of the loss not only in company’s balance
sheet but logically too. By tracking the status, workforce, Mandays required for
the assignment, and tracking it on a weekly basis will give a clear picture
pertaining to hours put in by employees’ per day. On the basis of such
statistics Organization can assign different projects of different fields to
them. Many companies execute the Job Rotation process wherein the employee
spends a stipulated time in each department to understand the business workflow.
These ideology will help the company in training the employee for taking the
risk / challenges, skill enhancement and keeping employee engaged – all the
said factors will lead to high productivity and a control check for attritions.
For many
to adapt beyond their expertise or learn something new/ different at certain
age/level becomes difficult. Psychology of an employee should be treated such
way that he/she discuss his/her concerns / plans regarding the quantity of work
required keeping in mind the qualitative figures as well.
I believe
it is always a two way inverse relation between the employer & employee. On
joining the employer shall welcome the employee in such a way that it would do
it for its new family member. With such a warm welcome employee will leave no
stone unturned for making the company excel. Both needs to take interest in each
other’s life cycle with a belief of being one entity.