Dan was referencing specifically a factory setting, butt-in-seat time is not an outdated measure in such a setting.
Drunk/tipsy employees are a safety hazard in such an environment etc.
Do these directly apply to other industries or settings? Depends :)
Re:Simple Sabotage Field Manual (1944)
by flyinRyan on Tuesday November 27, 2012 @03:38AM
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Fair enough. I made a reasonable but wrong assumption about what kind of business Dan would be talking about.
> Butt-in-seat time is an outdated measurement
I agree. There's a large local aerospace company. What time do the shop-floor workers have to start? 8:42 am.
They enforce it too; fellow workers, bosses, everyone polices that start time.
I don't care about this one. Butt-in-seat time is an outdated measurement.
2-6) Pretty easy to deal with this: your workers are behaving irresponsibly by coming in drunk and making mistakes. So you terminate them and get people who can deal with alcohol responsibly (I don't mean you can't have a drink at lunch, just be professional and don't get drunk when you're supposed to be working).
> but the UK has a poor reputation for the quality of middle management in industry.
If you find a place that has good middle management let me know and I'll have a look! :)