Marcuss' Aerospews

It’s weird that some companies’ value the time you spend at the office over the quality of work you churn out. Most local companies are like that. They even give awards like The Early Bird Award or something like that. What they don’t see is that employees coming early do not necessarily translate to increased productivity.  And sometimes it’s the other way around.

Not everybody’s body clock works the same way. Some people are more effective in the morning while some peak up in late morning or even in the afternoon. Additionally, there are some people who simply cannot sleep early. Therefore trying to come to work early means that they have to sacrifice a few hours of shuteye, which would eventually reflect on the quality of their work. Lack of sleep also causes stress, which could lead to psychological imbalance, which could result in an employees inability to know right from wrong which could lead to the employee going to work with a shotgun and taking aim at his/her tormentors.

Although coming on time is a must for those who work on shifts, production lines, or any other time-bound jobs but for paper driven work… a two-hour flexi-time would be nice.  I try as much as I can to come early to work (or suffer the consequences). However, I have no ambitions whatsoever of winning The Early Bird Award because I don’t think that coming to work early is an accomplishment all by itself. And don’t argue with me about the early bird catching the worm… because in a company, most of us are just WORMS.

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