It's official, we work the longest hours in the world

[CPT (NS) BRANDON]

It's official, Singapore employees are working the longest hours in the world. Even more than Japan. According to official surveys, 20% of our workforce clocks in more than 11 hours per day.

Check out the facts presented in this article:

http://endeavour.sg/20-of-singapore-employees-work-more-than-11-hours-daily/

And the sad part is, we work long hours but productivity is still low.

There is a serious cultural problem in this country. Tweaking of policies won't fix it. There needs to be a solution at the structural level, a change in culture and habits. Not something I think the PAP is capable of.

 

[songsongpunggol]

worse is wages are still very low.

 

[laksaboy]

There's this ingrained mentality that clocking many hours per day = hardworking = good employee = get promotions and raises faster.

The 'ai piah jiah eh yiah' song is the anthem of slaves.

This is especially so with plenty of gutless Sinkie employees who dare not go home before the boss, despite the fact that they're done for the day.

Around the time of their performance appraisal, they stay back late and look busy.

No you twits, that's inefficiency. Being a cubicle rat is not the same as having a restaurant job.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

There's this ingrained mentality that clocking many hours per day = hardworking = good employee = get promotions and raises faster.

The 'ai piah jiah eh yiah' song is the anthem of slaves.

This is especially so with plenty of gutless Sinkie employees who dare not go home before the boss, despite the fact that they're done for the day.

Around the time of their performance appraisal, they stay back late and look busy.

No you twits, that's inefficiency. Being a cubicle rat is not the same as having a restaurant job.

Yet isn't ai piah jiah eh yiah the way for success? I mean if you don't work hard as an entreprenaur you won't make it correct?

 

[CPT (NS) BRANDON]

There's this ingrained mentality that clocking many hours per day = hardworking = good employee = get promotions and raises faster.

The 'ai piah jiah eh yiah' song is the anthem of slaves.

This is especially so with plenty of gutless Sinkie employees who dare not go home before the boss, despite the fact that they're done for the day.

Around the time of their performance appraisal, they stay back late and look busy.

No you twits, that's inefficiency. Being a cubicle rat is not the same as having a restaurant job.

When I was with the SAF, I told my men that they could knock off at whatever time they wanted as long as they finished their work.

I had this one clerk who consistently completed his work around 4.00 to 4.30 pm and he could leave early around 3 days out of 5 each week. I believed that efficiency should be rewarded and incentivised. In fact, if you force them to work late, you are actually providing a disincentive for efficiency. Why take 10 hours to do a task, when it can be done in 5 hours?

 

[laksaboy]

When I was with the SAF, I told my men that they could knock off at whatever time they wanted as long as they finished their work.

I had this one clerk who consistently completed his work around 4.00 to 4.30 pm and he could leave early around 3 days out of 5 each week. I believed that efficiency should be rewarded and incentivised. In fact, if you force them to work late, you are actually providing a disincentive for efficiency. Why take 10 hours to do a task, when it can be done in 5 hours?

There's another aspect to this: if you prove yourself to be too efficient, you be asked to shoulder more jobs or assist with others' tasks.

This 'SAF arrow' mentality, combined with employers' shameless exploitation of their workers, made it that even the efficient people do not want to be perceived as efficient.

 

[CPT (NS) BRANDON]

There's another aspect to this: if you prove yourself to be too efficient, you be asked to shoulder more jobs or assist with others' tasks.

This 'SAF arrow' mentality, combined with employers' shameless exploitation of their workers, made it that even the efficient people do not want to be perceived as efficient.

This never happened in my department.

I made sure that people were rewarded for their efficiency, by allowing them to go home early once their tasks were completed.

For the inefficient ones, or for those who DELIBERATELY worked slowly (just to do less or avoid being arrowed), I made sure they have to work OT. Basically, I told them that the amount of tasks you have to complete today is fixed. If you finish in 4 hours, you go home in 4 hours. If you finish in 14 hours, you go home in 14 hours. Do not think that if you purposely slack until 6 pm then you can just go home.

As a result, this provided a disincentive to the slackers, while providing motivation to the efficient ones.

Try it in your workplace, it works!

 

[moolightaffairs]

long hour do nothing but playing facebook and looking for new jobs. shitface from rapistland and jiuhukiah.

 

[Jah_rastafar_I]

This never happened in my department.

I made sure that people were rewarded for their efficiency, by allowing them to go home early once their tasks were completed.

For the inefficient ones, or for those who DELIBERATELY worked slowly (just to do less or avoid being arrowed), I made sure they have to work OT. Basically, I told them that the amount of tasks you have to complete today is fixed. If you finish in 4 hours, you go home in 4 hours. If you finish in 14 hours, you go home in 14 hours. Do not think that if you purposely slack until 6 pm then you can just go home.

As a result, this provided a disincentive to the slackers, while providing motivation to the efficient ones.

Try it in your workplace, it works!

I believe you are actually a minority of bosses