Do Your Employees Take Advantage of You?
Although most employees will be sincere about personal problems that require time off from work, you may run into a deadbeat or two who is taking advantage of your flexibility to miss work for reasons unrelated to any valid personal problem. Of course, you can’t lower the boom on someone without being positive that you are being taken advantage of. For the most part, that isn’t hard to do.
Loyalty will be high in a working environment where a supervisor consistently tries to accommodate the legitimate needs of subordinates. For this reason, a deadbeat’s co-workers will either blow the whistle or exert peer pressure on the culprit to knock off the nonsense. After all, employees readily recognize that if privileges are abused they will be withdrawn. Therefore, co-workers are going to be unwilling to tolerate the nonsense of people trying to con their way into time off on the justification that it’s for emergency purposes. So your biggest allies in your efforts to avoid the abuse of your flexibility are those who work for you. As a result, if you do take an employee to task for attempting to take advantage of your flexibility you will likely receive the wholehearted backing of other employees.