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People hide "offline" so others don't message them, often times it more productive for me like that.
PwC 1, exactly! People judging others times' just by when the other is on the instant messaging service is a horrible methodology. At one of my clients the VPN is blocked so we can't even get on Sametime (for non-pwc this is pwc chat).
And just because they're not on when you are doesn't mean they're not on later or earlier
No one takes their computer home?? I think you're exaggerating
So first "no one is online after hours." And now "they leave their laptops at their desk." Ok op. How about you mind your own business
Does their work reflect 60 hours?
8-7 m-f is 55 hours plus 5 Saturday is 60. Not exactly a stretch.
@PwC 1 - Fair, but he never entered any admin time. He comes in at 9am, takes minimum 1 hr lunch & 30 min coffee break every day then leave at 7pm and book 10 hrs to client no matter what to meet the 50 hrs/wk charge goals. Also, he admitted in front of a partner at a staff meeting that if he doesn't have enough work to fill 50 mandated billable hrs that he will purposefully take longer to complete a task. Meanwhile as a new senior, I have plenty of work I could assign but didn't think he had availability bc he drags out his work! *end rant* Just one of the pain points of mandating staff to have billable hour min during BS...
I enter at least 0.5 hrs admin time each day for bathroom/coffee breaks, entering time, reading PwC news/replying to non-client emails. I was told to do this by a director... do you not ever hit the admin code?! Current utilization is 104% so not like 5 hrs each pay period affects anything.
Bathroom and coffee breaks if reasonable are chargeable! Wtf is the talk about putting them in admin? Ppl do that?
Well no one is on skype after hours.
A little of column A a little of column B
There are people definitely not pulling their weight. At least in my opinion. If I'm stuck there until 1am regularly, why are there people leaving at 7pm regularly? Aren't we a team?
Maybe you're pulling too much and could just not? Not saying you are, there could just be a ton to do. But in my experience work fills the hours given.
Padding all the way ✌🏽
First off I know people don't bring laptops home because they leave them at their desk when they leave. Second, while 8-7 m-f is 55 hours only if your charge every single minute at the office. No admin meeting, lunch, cpe, or breaks of any kind. This is a small office that I transferred to from a larger market where I'm used to see people stay until 10pm or midnight to get 60-65 charge hours.
My staff hours are my business
Op, hope you never make manager. Can tell you're the micro managing type. Just worry about yourself
Am a Director. Which is why I'm interested charges to my clients. Tracking time and billing is not micro managing, it's simply managing. I'll obviously know as I go through billing, but I was interested in a broad perspective. This is a new office for me and I'm pretty surprised people can get the same amount of work done by 7 as staff at other offices working until 10.
It seems like they are padding their time. I had a staff 1 that did this, talked to him and mentioned lunch/checking email or other admin tasks like entering his time/expenses or going to the bathroom/coffee breaks isn't client chargeable hours and he looked at me like 😳😨
Breaks for a reasonable time period are client chargeable