Sorry, but if you're expected at 10 you should arrive at 10. Doesn't matter if it is work, a meet-up with friends or family, a date, or whatever. People schedule things around you, they'll expect you at 10, not 10 minutes later. So if you come late, it means you're not respecting other people's time, which means you don't respect other people.
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You said it yourself: arrive to scheduled things on time. Meetings with others, for example. If you're going to do desk work, ten minutes more or less is irrelevant.
If you don't have anything to do with me on Tuesday morning but get uppity because I came in at 9:07 instead of 9:00 even though it affected nobody at all, that's a you problem, and please respect me by keeping it to yourself.
It's work, not elementary school. Just don't be late for your first meeting. But also don't throw meetings on people's calendar at 8am. It's a dick move.
Try working at a company that has staff on the opposite side of the planet. I've missed meetings scheduled for 7am (I start at 8) that were sent in the middle of the night. That's what I call a dick move.
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If you need to be there at a specific time, be professional and be there. If other workers are depending on you to be there, be there. Being tardy just ‘cause, is pretty pathetic. In an ideal world, none of us would have to work. But we do, so show up.
Depends entirely on the job.
If you are interacting with people or have meetings, sure, promptness is important and polite.
If you are doing design work, or coding, or data driven jobs where you don't really interact with anyone and just work for 8 hours, then who gives a shit if you work from 8-4 or 8:10-4:10? Fuck off if you think that makes a difference. 8 hours is 8 hours. End of story.
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Depends on the work and if people depend on you being on time. Applying one rule doesn't really make sense, but neither does RTO or a lot of work culture.
Sounds like the Peter principle at work, ensuring that Parkinson's law will be exemplified.
If your employees are living their lives to the clock, they're counting down the seconds rather than ticking off their tasks.
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The C-suite boss where I work complained about being in the office at 7 am and seeing empty desks.
This was pre-pandemic.
The thing was, policies in place at the time allowed employees to work from home up to two days per week, and flex hours were permitted as long as the core hours of 9am to 3pm were covered. It just sounded insane to everyone.
If I’m always expected to work half an hour late, showing up to work ten minutes late is early as long as no one is waiting on me.