Agile working policy

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At my workplace we have an agile working policy. People can work anywhere but must come to the office at least once a week.

We used to have a flexitime policy before which was office based so people could have flexible hours. During the agile working some people will work different hours and I have seen they have saved spreadsheets at 10pm at night. Others are told they should not be going to appointments in the day even though people have said they will make the time up.

It was reported that 1 colleague sunbathes in the garden in the summer and did not make the time up, their new manager realised they was doing this so have since increased their workload. Another colleague has been working a second job in my workplace's time and fails to turn up for the office when they are on the rota. They are being paid and not working at my workplace.

I just don't understand why some are threatened and told to do 9 to 5 with no leeway, some work till 10pm and others slack off and not work but that is ignored by management. It just seems the hard workers are penalised.

Gosh well that seems very messy. Maybe find somewhere else to work.

I think if you are at all worried about being questioned keep yourself a little timesheet in your calender or whatever.
Let the line managers of other people worry about what they are doing, just worry about yourself.

It was reported that 1 colleague sunbathes in the garden in the summer and did not make the time up

How would anyone know that?

@passiveconstellation They told their colleague who they are good friends with. But the colleague confided in us as they were being passed the work to do as it was not being done.

Sounds like weak leadership, bad management & an unmotivated workforce who are gossiping which contributes to the poor morale.

As PP said, keep your own timesheet or put everything you do into your teams calendar as a reminder/evidence should you be pulled up.

I think your options are either consider moving on, or if it suits you, suck it up & concentrate on your own patch, covering your own arse by working within the guidelines & recording it.

You can point out the inconsistencies to your LM but you would need to be extremely careful not to look like you're shit stirring or verge into whining that 'it's not fair' - I mean it sounds like it's not, but managers don't generally like to hear that.

Much of it is an international problem, it seems.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-21/overemployed-working-multiple-full-time-jobs/103464508