Today the city should declare an official snow day, well at least for the non-essential services.
Everyone should be free to go snowboarding ... shovel their driveways, make snow angels (if that's you thing) ... lay in bed all day (with that special someone, or your latest fling) ... order in food (so yes I guess the pizza man is an essential service) ... go snowmobiling (if you live in an area where thats the thing to do) .... or anything else you can do BUT WORK!
There must be studies on how low the productivity is on days like today when people straggle in to the office late because of the road conditions, because they slept in and are blaming it on the road conditions, because they were cuddling with their lovers and blaming it on the road conditions, or got into a fender bender because of the road conditions. When they finally get into the office and get settled it already mid morning, still need to get your morning coffee and chit chat at the watercooler about how bad the roads were on the way in and then go around the whole office discussing how long it took each person to get in.
By the time they actually pick up the file they need to be working on, it's nearly lunch time, and since it a "snow day" and their manager is "working from home", they take the opportunity to take an extended lunch beginning at 1130am with an end time yet to be determined.
Coming back from lunch sometime in the mid afternoon, they start to estimate when would be the best time to leave for the day to avoid being stuck in the afternoon rush hour traffic. Settling on 300pm, they check their emails, facebook,horoscope, sports highlights, gossip news, credit score, IQ, facebook, weather report, email, gossip news, weather and log out for the day.
So really?! Is there really a question of productivity on these "snow days" I guess not, because at least your staff is in the office and accounted for. At least they are there and available to answer the phones if a customer or client calls in, at least there is a full parking lot when people drive by so it doesn't appear as though your office observed a snow day. There is some productivity that comes of these days.
After all I'm at work writing this post.
Everyone should be free to go snowboarding ... shovel their driveways, make snow angels (if that's you thing) ... lay in bed all day (with that special someone, or your latest fling) ... order in food (so yes I guess the pizza man is an essential service) ... go snowmobiling (if you live in an area where thats the thing to do) .... or anything else you can do BUT WORK!
There must be studies on how low the productivity is on days like today when people straggle in to the office late because of the road conditions, because they slept in and are blaming it on the road conditions, because they were cuddling with their lovers and blaming it on the road conditions, or got into a fender bender because of the road conditions. When they finally get into the office and get settled it already mid morning, still need to get your morning coffee and chit chat at the watercooler about how bad the roads were on the way in and then go around the whole office discussing how long it took each person to get in.
By the time they actually pick up the file they need to be working on, it's nearly lunch time, and since it a "snow day" and their manager is "working from home", they take the opportunity to take an extended lunch beginning at 1130am with an end time yet to be determined.
Coming back from lunch sometime in the mid afternoon, they start to estimate when would be the best time to leave for the day to avoid being stuck in the afternoon rush hour traffic. Settling on 300pm, they check their emails, facebook,horoscope, sports highlights, gossip news, credit score, IQ, facebook, weather report, email, gossip news, weather and log out for the day.
So really?! Is there really a question of productivity on these "snow days" I guess not, because at least your staff is in the office and accounted for. At least they are there and available to answer the phones if a customer or client calls in, at least there is a full parking lot when people drive by so it doesn't appear as though your office observed a snow day. There is some productivity that comes of these days.
After all I'm at work writing this post.
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