They also shop. Employees reveal the personal things they do during working hours. They are not just the younger ones.
Enjoy the working hours To do (many) personal tasks, that have nothing to do with work – and no longer hide that they do.
To called time fraud It’s being publicly announced by young workers, integrated in the so -called Generation Z; That is, born between 1997 and 2012.
The trend comes – again – at Tiktok: videos are emerging where young workers say that During working hours they see Netflix, wash their clothes, shopping, drink cocktails with alcohol, or even work only one day a week in practice.
There are videos with this type of content that have been viewed up to 400,000 times.
Time fraud is associated with younger people (because they own publicly admit), but there are also workers older Doing the same reveals a study of the consumerfieldwork quoted in the newspaper.
Laboral Affairs expert Sascha Stowasser warns that this routine is not a joke: “ huge economic consequences. Absentism is very costly for companies. ”
Consequences
Michael Fuhlrott, a labor law expert, warns that there are consequences for these employees: “Anyone who intentionally pretends to work while, in fact, it does something else is committing a fraud”. The key factor is the violation of duty: “And that exists even when there is only an unlavoded short interval.”
“If someone only works 20 hours a week instead of the 40s, this is a violation of duty,” adds Michael Fuhlrott.
This violation of duty, who deceives the boss intentionally, is fired Immediately, at worst.
And there was already a example Real: In Germany, a transport company said goodbye a supervisor who spent working hours with his girlfriend, cafes or hairdresser. The case went to court, the company won. And the inspector, besides being fired, still had to pay another 21,000 euros for the work of a private investigator in this process.
It is an extreme consequence because, in general, we need to look at the intensity of fraud and the time of service of the worker.
This issue got worse with teleworking but this time fraud already It has existed for decades. In other times, for example, they spent hours talking on the phone – with personal calls.
LACK LEADERSHIP
But, whether in the past or in the present, most employees does not do so for revenge or resentment: If on the one hand it is a lack of notion by the worker, it is also a matter of poorly defined objectives and lack of leadership by the boss (especially when the fraud of time extends).
And how does the boss realize? There is some co -worker who makes complaintanswers the Fuhlrott legal expert.
Then there is the question: with technology, with artificial intelligence, a worker only needs 30 hours and not 40 hours to accomplish his tasks – Should you continue to work?
“Employment contracts are usually service contracts. Most workers are paid on time, not based on success or productivity,” recalls Michael Fuhlrott.
But there is another perspective: a work system that focuses on time instead of results is outdated. “If anyone concludes their tasks efficiently, why couldn’t one hour early?” Asks another expert on working issues, Stowasser.
