Office Rules To Make Employees Leave

After having experiences working in several companies, finally I stranded and came back to a local company that had given me colour in my career path.
The company was just changed its name due to ownership of shareholder.
Working environment was good, break time for praying was provided.
It’s understandable that company needs to establish some ground rules to maintain performance and productivity.
However, company should not cross that boundary where rules confine employee passion or enthusiasm.

1. Attendance Policies

Companies should realise that salaried people are no longer school children. If an employer is unhappy that an employee comes in 10 minutes late but fails to appreciate how the employee works 1 hour early. The company probably doesn’t deserve that employee at all.


2. Internet Restrictions

I m not saying that blocking websites at work is wrong. Indeed, facebook and other unnecessary or irrelevant web may be blocked. Unfortunately, the company restricts employees’ Internet activity so overacted that it limits their ability to do their jobs.
For instance, employee needs to find out lesson learnt from blog or online writers as well as vendor's catalogue to support their jobs.

3. Performance Reviews

There are instances when a bureaucratic five-point scale just doesn’t add up for brilliant and talented people. Bell curve performance reviews for example encourage the retention of mediocre employees and not those who actually outperform! However, the largest abomination of performance reviews has to be ‘stack ranking’, where the company lines up employees and compares them with each other.

4. Pay Structures

Companies should realise that rigid salaries are a thing of the past! If an employee is contributing massively to the company, the managers and HR should revise the employee’s benefits to show appreciation. However, if the HR comes back by saying you’re getting the normal 5% increase in annual salary (that everyone else is getting the same!) then there would be no surprises if the company turnover rate skyrockets.

5. Rules For Time-Off

Let’s say a dedicated employee works hard, clocks overtime and produces excellent results. The least the company can do is allow him/her to take their annual leave at any time they need their time off. Employers who scrooge on well-deserved annual leaves or even medical leave are downright unfair and deserve to see good employees leaving.

6. Too Many Rules In The First Place

To be completely honest, how many of us actually do read the employee’s handbook? (if it even exits or is updated anyway).
If HR expects you to completely memorize the entire thing, they should have gotten rid of at least half of those rules in that handbook in the first place!

Nobody likes words without action framed in a handbook that is just TL;DR (too long; didn’t read).

Companies should realize that offices should be run where the inhabitants are mature enough to do what they were hired to do, not run like some concentration camp or prison with 7-levels of security complete with CCTV all over workplaces.

If the above rules really sound like the company you are in right now, ask yourself if you see yourself growing in the future or if you even belong there.
------------
This article was originally written by Rebecca Koay with the title “10 Stupid Office Rules That Chase Away Good Employees” and was first published on Wobb, a job application platform for millennials who value the importance of good working culture.