how a lot socializing at work is an excessive amount of?
A reader writes:
I’m a supervisor at an workplace of 35 staff and everyone seems to be pretty autonomous in managing their workload. We’re a fairly social and informal group, so it’s no massive deal for folks to socialize with each other to a sure extent. Nevertheless, I’ve lately observed that there appear to be extra frequent, extended socializing classes with some teams of individuals. I’d guess it’s 3-5 days per week for 45 minutes or extra every time. I believe it in all probability begins out as work-related conversations however then wanders into extra social territory. Is this gorgeous typical? My concern is that persons are getting too relaxed and pushing aside the precise work that must be finished after which high quality is struggling (high quality is tough to measure in my job so that is tough to trace). My concern with addressing it’s that I don’t need to kill morale. In case you assume it does should be addressed, how would you achieve this?
I reply this query over at Inc. at the moment, the place I’m revisiting letters which have been buried within the archives right here from years in the past (and typically updating/increasing my solutions to them). You can learn it right here.