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Mandatory team building events should always be scheduled during normal working hours. I have seen times where outside impacts require flexibility from the team. If the event is a happy hour or anything that doesn’t have a training element it shouldn’t be mandatory. Also, mandatory events where alcohol may be consumed is a huge liability and leadership should ensure that those are not mandatory.
I avoid them at all cost. That said, I’m currently unemployed because of not playing by the office politics. So…most people do these events despite how they ‘feel’ because the leadership who expects people to attend them are toxic to begin with, so they expect you to participate as some sort of twisted loyalty to the company because THEY work overtime as there’s no such thing as a manager who doesn’t. They want you to come down to their level of lost joy and purpose in life.
I avoid them. Team bonding events need to occur during business hours.
Mandatory on off time is not good, We all work because we get paid. If not getting paid then not good.
Hate mandatory after hours team building. I think it's further proof that we are not free individuals and are owned by corporations. If you think about it, when you are an employee, even though you may work 40 hours a week, your work controls 100% of your time. If you have off, it's because they allow you to have off. We have little protections in the US.
This is why unionization needs to come back. Then, employees can fight as a group rather than individually.
Do you need to bond to work cooperatively?
In a past life, that would have been fine, with the loss of relationships, and an enforced early retirement, I would not support any mandatory training after hours, your kids will remember what you were not there for, your time at home is precious, guard it, you will get greater rewards.
I don't go. I don't like the people I work with and I'm not spending any more time with them than I'm legally required to.
It’s not considerate or inclusive at all, you need to point this out just the single parent is a didcri claim waiting to happen. You didn’t say it it was paid time or not, add that into the mix and there could be holiday accrual too
I just don't do it. No excuses, just no. I even sit in my car at lunch, my time so I spend it how I like