How to Get Tardiness at Work Under Control
Tardiness among your staff members can wind up affecting company productivity and your overall bottom line. If salaried employees show up late for work every day, you end up paying them for time that they are not actually in the office. When employees walk into the office late, they inevitably distract the team working around them, and if they are tardy for meetings with clients, you may lose important accounts. Get tardiness at work under control by instituting natural negative and positive consequences for your employees' actions.
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Take a look at your own tardiness record. Lead your team by example, and change your habits so you can show up early and leave a bit late from the office every day.
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Call the entire office or department in for a meeting. Explain that tardiness in the office has gotten out of control, and things have to change.
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Tell employees that from here on out, a new office policy will be in effect. Employees will be issued a verbal warning for their first incident of tardiness, suffer a half-hour pay deduction for the second occurrence (or a set percentage for salaried employees), and an hour pay deduction (or increased percentage for salaried employees) for the third and subsequent occurrences. Inform employees that chronic lateness will result in dismissal.
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Inform employees that you would rather reward promptness than penalize lateness. Let everyone know that you will take all employees that have been on time every day of any given week out for lunch that Friday.
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Tips & Warnings
Make sure to write your new tardiness policy down on paper, so you everyone on the team can refer to it as needed.
Follow through with positive and negative consequences, or your employees will not respect you and their tardiness will likely increase.
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