Dear All,
I would like to request all of you to provide valuable suggestions on the implementation of a new policy in our company regarding working days.
Currently, we work for 6 days, from Monday to Friday, for 8.5 hours, and half a day on Saturdays, with one Saturday off per month. We are considering a change to a 5-day work week with Saturdays and Sundays off.
Our company operates in the FMCG sector, with a warehouse on the office premises. The supporting functions including Finance, HR, Marketing, Legal Billing, Warehouse, and E-commerce sales teams work in the office. Offline sales employees work primarily in the field and visit the office only when necessary.
With this proposed working schedule, we aim to implement changes without disrupting warehouse and billing operations on Saturdays, as customer dispatches also occur on Saturdays. We want to ensure that sales operations are not affected if the sales team is granted Saturdays off.
To address these challenges, we are planning to introduce an additional hour of work on weekdays for support functions, with Saturdays and Sundays off. Sales, billing, and warehouse teams will work two Saturdays a month with their regular working hours.
I would appreciate hearing from you based on your experience and expertise about any additional options that could be considered by management, ensuring no negative impact on the company or employees.
Looking forward to your valuable insights.
Thank you!
From India, Bengaluru
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I would like to request all of you to provide valuable suggestions on the implementation of a new policy in our company regarding working days.
Currently, we work for 6 days, from Monday to Friday, for 8.5 hours, and half a day on Saturdays, with one Saturday off per month. We are considering a change to a 5-day work week with Saturdays and Sundays off.
Our company operates in the FMCG sector, with a warehouse on the office premises. The supporting functions including Finance, HR, Marketing, Legal Billing, Warehouse, and E-commerce sales teams work in the office. Offline sales employees work primarily in the field and visit the office only when necessary.
With this proposed working schedule, we aim to implement changes without disrupting warehouse and billing operations on Saturdays, as customer dispatches also occur on Saturdays. We want to ensure that sales operations are not affected if the sales team is granted Saturdays off.
To address these challenges, we are planning to introduce an additional hour of work on weekdays for support functions, with Saturdays and Sundays off. Sales, billing, and warehouse teams will work two Saturdays a month with their regular working hours.
I would appreciate hearing from you based on your experience and expertise about any additional options that could be considered by management, ensuring no negative impact on the company or employees.
Looking forward to your valuable insights.
Thank you!
From India, Bengaluru
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Dear Colleague,
The working hours should be in line with business as well as be friendly to the talents' work-life balance. It is a good move, first of all. There are a couple of pre-implementation steps that might be thought out so that it will align correctly with the good intentions aimed at by your move:
1) INTERNAL
2) EXTERNAL
In the case of internal aspects, there should be strong internal communication involving the office HODs and managers clearly explaining the need for a few departments to work on alternate Saturdays, whereas a few other colleagues in support functions will not work on all Saturdays. The customer focus needs to be clearly briefed, and there may be a need to explain that the talents enjoying all Saturdays off are working extra hours during their weekdays, and so on. Still, there may be hurt feelings as it is a human tendency, but it has to be managed as such issues are endless.
Regarding external factors, you need to check with the legal provisions that govern the working hours, and you are likely covered under the Shops and Establishments Act. Hence, you may want to check the provisions relating to the working hours governing your warehouse. Normally, there are restrictions on daily and weekly hours, such as 8 hours per day and 48 hours per week in general. When you are asking talents from certain departments to exceed these working hours in a day, there may be a need to obtain a written exemption from the respective state government authority under the Act. In our previous company, we received a written exemption highlighting the benefits to the employees as they worked an additional half an hour to one hour per day and enjoyed a full day off on Saturdays. The authorities instructed us to collect individual consent letters from each employee as a token of acceptance of the proposed system. We submitted the majority of the employees' consent letters. They also requested us to display the new system proposal on the notice board and provide the address of the government authority for sharing objections, if any, within a specified timeline. Once all processes were completed, the authority under the Shops and Establishments Act issued an exemption order to the working hours provision and granted permission to implement the new system. Therefore, you may want to consult with the relevant authority; nowadays, they understand the needs very well and support all good causes. All the best, and it is a good proposal.
From India, Chennai
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337The working hours should be in line with business as well as be friendly to the talents' work-life balance. It is a good move, first of all. There are a couple of pre-implementation steps that might be thought out so that it will align correctly with the good intentions aimed at by your move:
1) INTERNAL
2) EXTERNAL
In the case of internal aspects, there should be strong internal communication involving the office HODs and managers clearly explaining the need for a few departments to work on alternate Saturdays, whereas a few other colleagues in support functions will not work on all Saturdays. The customer focus needs to be clearly briefed, and there may be a need to explain that the talents enjoying all Saturdays off are working extra hours during their weekdays, and so on. Still, there may be hurt feelings as it is a human tendency, but it has to be managed as such issues are endless.
Regarding external factors, you need to check with the legal provisions that govern the working hours, and you are likely covered under the Shops and Establishments Act. Hence, you may want to check the provisions relating to the working hours governing your warehouse. Normally, there are restrictions on daily and weekly hours, such as 8 hours per day and 48 hours per week in general. When you are asking talents from certain departments to exceed these working hours in a day, there may be a need to obtain a written exemption from the respective state government authority under the Act. In our previous company, we received a written exemption highlighting the benefits to the employees as they worked an additional half an hour to one hour per day and enjoyed a full day off on Saturdays. The authorities instructed us to collect individual consent letters from each employee as a token of acceptance of the proposed system. We submitted the majority of the employees' consent letters. They also requested us to display the new system proposal on the notice board and provide the address of the government authority for sharing objections, if any, within a specified timeline. Once all processes were completed, the authority under the Shops and Establishments Act issued an exemption order to the working hours provision and granted permission to implement the new system. Therefore, you may want to consult with the relevant authority; nowadays, they understand the needs very well and support all good causes. All the best, and it is a good proposal.
From India, Chennai
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