Attendance and Punctuality
Josh at smbitpros asks, “What do you do when you have attendance and Punctuality problems?” Here at Architel we have a fairly liberal PTO (i.e. paid time off) policy, providing 18 days of paid time off for each employee. Earlier this year we decided to leverage our PTO policy as a carrot and as a stick to promote attendance and punctuality. For those who are late without an excuse we levy a 1/2 day PTO penalty. For those who have perfect attendance and punctuality we hold a drawing each month awarding the winners with their choice of a $100 gift card or an additional PTO day.
Our primary goal is to be able to predict who and when we will have engineers at the office each day. If we find an employee is habitually late we will recommend moving their start time - e.g. if your start time is 8AM, but you can’t get in until 8:30AM we may suggest that your new start time be 9AM. The actual time is not as important as the ability to predict whether or not we will have available resources to serve our clients needs.
