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Old 27-03-2007, 02:07 PM posted to aus.family,aus.gardens
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"Barbara" wrote:

OK I will admit I came in late and can't be bothered going back through all
the posts but...
Why do you think employers should bear the cost of work place disruption,
that maternity leave causes, ditto with allowing people to knock off work to
pick up the kids?


I think you need to go back to the other thread.

Let me tell you a little story. There was once an engineering firm on
Sydney's Northern Beaches which (at some point) had one of those annoying
employees who take a lot of private calls, fiddled his flextime, came in late
and was generally a pain. Of course the correct way to deal with such a
person is to confront him and punish him, but this firm didn't. Instead they
instituted policies like: no personal phone calls or e-mail under any
circumstances, and they ditched flextime. A friend of ours got a job there.
He said he'd never ever seen an engineering firm where the engineers all left
on the dot of 5pm -- generally engineers love their jobs and happily put in
lots of hours when necessary -- but because they were being treated like
naughty little kids (when none of them had done anything wong in the first
place), they bundied off with the enthusiasm of process workers. Moral: treat
your employees fairly and well, and you'll get not just good work, but
excellence and enthusiasm.

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Chookie -- Sydney, Australia
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